Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pompous \Pomp"ous\, a. [F. pompeux, L. pomposus. See {Pomp}.]
1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur;
magnificent; as, a pompous procession.
[1913 Webster]
2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as,
pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in high
presumption." --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
he pompous vanity of the old schoolmistress.
--Thackeray.
[1913 Webster] -- {Pom"ous*ly}, adv. -- {Pomp"ous*ness},
n.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pompous
adj 1: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful
manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";
"pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-
Newsweek [syn: {grandiloquent}, {overblown}, {pompous},
{pontifical}, {portentous}]
2: characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display [syn:
{pompous}, {ceremonious}]
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย