ostentator
English
Alternative forms
- ostentatour (obsolete, rare)
Etymology
Latin
Noun
ostentator (plural ostentators)
- (archaic) One fond of display; a boaster.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sherwood to this entry?)
Related terms
- ostentation
- ostentatious
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
- tetrastoon
Latin
Verb
ostentātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of ostentō
- 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