Definitions for pomp

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Spelling: [pomp]
IPA: /pɒmp/

Pomp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in pomp (mopp).

Definitions for pomp

noun

  1. stately or splendid display; splendor; magnificence.
  2. ostentatious or vain display, especially of dignity or importance.
  3. pomps, pompous displays, actions, or things:
  4. Archaic. a stately or splendid procession; pageant.

Origin of pomp

1275-1325; Middle English Latin pompa display, parade, procession Greek pompḗ orig., a sending, akin to pémpein to send

Examples for pomp

Compared to where we had just been, what we had so recently done, all the pomp and circumstance seemed ingratiatingly trivial.

A glittering spectacle of British pomp and majesty it may be, but the clothes are rather tight, and the room is somewhat airless.

We still seem driven by hype, by illusory health scares and benefits, by pomp, by the new and trendy, than by taste.

Give me health and a day and I will put the pomp of emperors to shame.

No pomp of funeral was, indeed, necessary for such a person.

If a product is beautiful, why do you need all that pomp and circumstance?

The pomp of Antony's position, too, and his kingly personality pleased our poet.

Instead, there was a high school band striking up the Elgar march “pomp and Circumstance.”

To draw out the pomp and circumstance of opening the conference?

The Marquis had naturally expected to find him in the midst of pomp.

Word Value for pomp
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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