Definitions for pomps

pomps pomp

Spelling: [pomp]
IPA: /pɒmp/

Pomps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in pomps (mopps).

Definitions for pomps

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 pomps

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

Examples for pomps

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

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.

Word Value for pomps
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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