High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.
To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language
Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model.
The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage.
A level of quality or attainment.
The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
The sheth of a plough.
A collar of mail protecting the neck.
A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government.
An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite.
A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it.
Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold.
A manual transmission vehicle.
A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid.
A large drinking cup.
A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
A musical work of established popularity.
An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard.
The flag or ensign carried by a military unit.
Grade level in primary education.
Having a manual transmission.
Conforming to the standard variety.
Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality.
As normally supplied (not optional).
Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc.
Having recognized excellence or authority.
Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc.
An expression of agreement.