ostentator

English

Alternative forms
  • ostentatour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

Latin

Noun

ostentator (plural ostentators)

  1. (archaic) One fond of display; a boaster.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ostentator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

ostentātor

  1. second-person singular future passive imperative of ostentō
  2. third-person singular future passive imperative of ostentō

References
  • ostentator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ostentator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ostentator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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