Meaning

1 senses

  1. (obsolete)To make an ambitious display of; to exhibit or show boastingly; to ostentate.

Origin

From Middle French ostenter (“to make an ostentatious display of”), or directly from its e

From Middle French ostenter (“to make an ostentatious display of”), or directly from its etymon Latin ostentāre (“to exhibit, present, show; to show off”), frequentative of ostendere (“to exhibit, show”), from ob- (prefix meaning ‘against; towards’) + tendere (“to extend, stretch; to distend”) (from Proto-Indo-European *tend- (“to extend, stretch”)). Doublet of ostentate.

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Forms

ostents, ostenting, ostented, ostented
Base formostent · to ostent
3rd person singularostents
Present participleostenting
Past simpleostented
Past participleostented

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyostent
he, she, itostents

Past simpleLesson

all personsostented

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave ostented
he, she, ithas ostented

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill ostent

Synonyms

33 synonyms
demonstrateB1displayB1galleryA2ostentatemanifestexhibitionizepreenstrutaura farmboulevardiercut a wide swathcut it fatcut roundfigure away

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
oscillateosmosisospreyostensiblyC2ostentationostentatiousosteoarthritisosteopathic

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