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Webster 1913 Edition
Ostentator
Os′ten-taˊtor
,Noun.
[L.]
One fond of display; a boaster.
Sherwood.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ostentator
OSTENTA'TOR
,Noun.
Definition 2024
ostentator
ostentator
English
Alternative forms
- ostentatour (obsolete, rare)
Noun
ostentator (plural ostentators)
- (archaic) One fond of display; a boaster.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sherwood to this entry?)
Latin
Verb
ostentātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of ostentō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of ostentō
References
- ostentator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ostentator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ostentator”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.