FANFARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fanfare mean? 

• FANFARE (noun)
  The noun FANFARE has 2 senses:

1. a gaudy outward display

2. (music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments

  Familiarity information: FANFARE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FANFARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A gaudy outward display

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

fanfare; flash; ostentation

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

display (exhibiting openly in public view)

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

bluster; bravado (a swaggering show of courage)

exhibitionism (extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself)

ritz (ostentatious display of elegance)

splurge (an ostentatious display (of effort or extravagance etc.))

pedantry (an ostentatious and inappropriate display of learning)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(music) a short lively tune played on brass instruments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

fanfare; flourish; tucket

Context example:

her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare

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

air; line; melodic line; melodic phrase; melody; strain; tune (a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence)

Domain category:

music (an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner)

 Context examples 

As he spoke the attendant cantered up the grassy enclosure, and pulling up his steed in front of the royal stand, blew a second fanfare upon his bugle.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)