AGGRANDISEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aggrandisement mean? 

• AGGRANDISEMENT (noun)
  The noun AGGRANDISEMENT has 1 sense:

1. the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something

  Familiarity information: AGGRANDISEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGGRANDISEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

aggrandisement; aggrandizement; elevation

Context example:

his elevation to cardinal

Hypernyms ("aggrandisement" is a kind of...):

increase; step-up (the act of increasing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "aggrandisement"):

ego trip; self-aggrandisement; self-aggrandizement (an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance)

Derivation:

aggrandise (add details to)

 Context examples 

That Mr. W. has been for years deluded and plundered, in every conceivable manner, to the pecuniary aggrandisement of the avaricious, false, and grasping—HEEP.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)