Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In music, dignified; grand: noting a passage or movement to be rendered in a grand, and dignified style.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Mus.) Grand and dignified; in grand style.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective music Grand and dignified.
- adverb music In a grand and dignified manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tabios decidió renombrar a su Haiku filipino con un nombre más largo y pomposo: Philippine Independence Day - Pinoy Haiku, pues el anuncio de Tabios ocurrió un doce de junio, día de la independencia de Filipinas.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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Now, with all due respect to Jim (Cancun), who once asserted that the dictionary did not a language make, he now seems to be relying heavily on the DRAE which did not seem to cover the "pomposo, grandilocuente" connotation.
"altisonante" revisited...the truth shall set you free 2002
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Now, with all due respect to Jim (Cancun), who once asserted that the dictionary did not a language make, he now seems to be relying heavily on the DRAE which did not seem to cover the "pomposo, grandilocuente" connotation.
"altisonante" revisited...the truth shall set you free 2002
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Now, with all due respect to Jim (Cancun), who once asserted that the dictionary did not a language make, he now seems to be relying heavily on the DRAE which did not seem to cover the "pomposo, grandilocuente" connotation.
"altisonante" revisited...the truth shall set you free 2002
-
Now, with all due respect to Jim (Cancun), who once asserted that the dictionary did not a language make, he now seems to be relying heavily on the DRAE which did not seem to cover the "pomposo, grandilocuente" connotation.
"altisonante" revisited...the truth shall set you free 2002
-
Now, with all due respect to Jim (Cancun), who once asserted that the dictionary did not a language make, he now seems to be relying heavily on the DRAE which did not seem to cover the "pomposo, grandilocuente" connotation.
"altisonante" revisited...the truth shall set you free 2002
-
Now, with all due respect to Jim (Cancun), who once asserted that the dictionary did not a language make, he now seems to be relying heavily on the DRAE which did not seem to cover the "pomposo, grandilocuente" connotation.
"altisonante" revisited...the truth shall set you free 2002
-
Now, with all due respect to Jim (Cancun), who once asserted that the dictionary did not a language make, he now seems to be relying heavily on the DRAE which did not seem to cover the "pomposo, grandilocuente" connotation.
"altisonante" revisited...the truth shall set you free 2002
-
Now, with all due respect to Jim (Cancun), who once asserted that the dictionary did not a language make, he now seems to be relying heavily on the DRAE which did not seem to cover the "pomposo, grandilocuente" connotation.
"altisonante" revisited...the truth shall set you free 2002
-
Now, with all due respect to Jim (Cancun), who once asserted that the dictionary did not a language make, he now seems to be relying heavily on the DRAE which did not seem to cover the "pomposo, grandilocuente" connotation.
"altisonante" revisited...the truth shall set you free 2002
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