Synonyms for pageantry
All synonyms
Noun
1. Pomp — A pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant
pomp, spectacle, pageant, parade, magnificence, ostentation, show, display, flourish, showing off
Definitions
- n. 1
A pageant; a colourful show or display, as in a pageant.
Forms
- Plural
- pageantries → pomps, spectacles, pageants, parades…
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Pageant, pageantry, parade, and pomp refer principally to affairs of arms or state; as, a royal pageant; a military parade.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- parade The band entertained the spectators at the parade.
- spectacle I've already made enough of a spectacle of myself.
- pageant Sami's girlfriend entered into a beauty pageant.
- pomp Buckingham Palace is a symbol of pomp and ceremony.
By length
- 4 letters
- show1, pomp1
- 6 letters
- parade2
- 7 letters
- display2, pageant2
- 8 letters
- flourish2
- 9 letters
- spectacle3
- 11 letters
- ostentation4
- 12 letters
- magnificence
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (parade2 = 2 syllables).