different between bombast vs palau

English

Etymology

From Old French bombace (“cotton, cotton wadding”), from Late Latin bombax (“cotton”), a variant of bombyx (“silkworm”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (bómbux, “silkworm”), possibly related to Middle Persian pmbk' (“cotton”), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning “to twist, wind”.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?mbæst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?mbæst/
• Hyphenation: bom?bast

Noun

bombast (countable and uncountable, plural bombasts)

1. (archaic) Cotton, or cotton wool.

   Synonym: fustian
2. (archaic) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.
3. (figuratively) High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.

   Synonyms: aureation, (obsolete) bombard phrase, fustian, grandiloquence, purple prose

Derived terms

• bombastic
• bombastical
• bombastically
• bombastry

Translations

Verb

bombast (third-person singular simple present bombasts, present participle bombasting, simple past and past participle bombasted)

1. To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
2. To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.

Translations

Adjective

bombast (comparative more bombast, superlative most bombast)

1. Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.

   Synonyms: aureate, highfalutin

References

Further reading

• fustian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Catalan

Etymology

From a variant of Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan palatz), from Latin pal?tium (compare French palais, Portuguese paço, Italian palazzo).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /p??law/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pa?law/
• Rhymes: -aw

Noun

palau m (plural palaus)

1. palace

Related terms

• palatí

Further reading

• “palau” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “palau” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “palau” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “palau” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Etymology

< Palau

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?l?u/, [?p?l?u]
• Rhymes: -?l?u
• Syllabification: pa?la?u

Noun

palau

1. Palauan (language)

Declension

Synonyms

• palaun kieli

Derived terms

• palaunkielinen (expressed in Palauan, being Palauan-speaking)

Anagrams

• Lapua, Paula, lupaa, paalu, paula, pulaa

Malay

Etymology

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [pa.lau]

Verb

palau

1. (slang) (nonstandard) to ignore.

   Synonym(s): pulau