different between pomp vs dignity

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French pompe, from Latin pompa (“pomp”), from Ancient Greek ????? (pomp?, “a sending, a solemn procession, pomp”), from ????? (pémp?, “I send”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?mp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

pomp (countable and uncountable, plural pomps)

1. Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
2. A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.

Related terms

• pompous
• pomposity
• hypnopompic

Derived terms

• pomp and circumstance

Translations

Verb

pomp (third-person singular simple present pomps, present participle pomping, simple past and past participle pomped)

1. (obsolete) To make a pompous display; to conduct.
   • 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwood

     pomp'd for those hard trifles

Further reading

• pomp in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pomp in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pomp at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “pomp”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch pomp, from Middle Dutch pompe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?mp/

Noun

pomp (plural pompe, diminutive pompie)

1. pump (device for moving liquid or gas)

Danish

Etymology

From German Pomp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?mp/, [p??m?b?]

Noun

pomp c (singular definite pompen, not used in plural form)

1. pomp (show of magnificence)

Synonyms

• pragt

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch pompe. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?mp/
• Hyphenation: pomp
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

pomp f (plural pompen, diminutive pompje n)

1. pump (device for moving liquid or gas)

Derived terms

• benzinepomp
• bierpomp
• fietspomp
• maagpomp
• pompen
• scheepspomp
• stadspomp
• voetpomp
• waterpomp

Descendants

• Afrikaans: pomp
• ? Indonesian: pompa
• ? Japanese: ???
• ? Sranan Tongo: pompu
  • ? Aukan: pompu

Icelandic

Etymology

Probably a loan word from the Danish pomp, from the French pompe, from the Latin pompa (“display, parade, procession”), from Ancient Greek ????? (pomp?, “a sending”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??m?p/
• Rhymes: -?m?p

Noun

pomp n (genitive singular pomps)

1. ceremony, pomp

Declension

Synonyms

• (ceremony, pomp): viðhöfn, skraut

Derived terms

• pomp og prakt

English

Etymology

From Middle English dignyte, from Old French dignité, from Latin d?gnit?s (“worthiness, merit, dignity, grandeur, authority, rank, office”), from d?gnus (“worthy, appropriate”), from Proto-Italic *degnos, from Proto-Indo-European *d?-nos, from *de?- (“to take”). See also decus (“honor, esteem”) and decet (“it is fitting”). Cognate to deign. Doublet of dainty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??n?ti/

Noun

dignity (countable and uncountable, plural dignities)

1. The state of being dignified or worthy of esteem: elevation of mind or character.
   • 1752, Henry Fielding, Amelia, I. viii

     He uttered this ... with great majesty, or, as he called it, dignity.

   • 1981, African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, art. 5

     Every individual shall have the right to the respect of the dignity inherent in a human being.

2. Decorum, formality, stateliness.
   • 1934, Aldous Huxley, "Puerto Barrios", in Beyond the Mexique Bay:

     Official DIGNITY tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

3. High office, rank, or station.
   • 1781, Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, F. III. 231:

     He ... distributed the civil and military dignities among his favourites and followers.
4. One holding high rank; a dignitary.
5. (obsolete) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.

Synonyms

• worth
• worthiness

Coordinate terms

• augustness, humanness, nobility, majesty, grandeur, glory, superiority, wonderfulness

Related terms

• deign
• dignified
• dignify

Translations

See also

• affirmation
• integrity
• self-respect
• self-esteem
• self-worth

• dignity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• dignity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• tidying