EXTRAVAGANZA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extravaganza mean? 

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

1. any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTRAVAGANZA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

amusement; entertainment (an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention)

 Context examples 

It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody—told it to me because Jay Gatsby had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice and the long secret extravaganza was played out.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)