boast

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US /boʊst/ UK /bəʊst/ See IPA manual

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Meanings

1

verb
To talk proudly about yourself or what you have done.

He boasted about his new car all evening.
2

verb
(of a place or thing) To have something good worth being proud of.

The hotel boasts one of the best views of the sea.
3

noun
Something you say proudly about yourself.

It was his regular boast that he never got sick.

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Synonyms

1 verb · to talk proudly about... brag

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Opposites

depreciate

Word family

Forms boastedboastingboasts

Derived forms boaster boastful boastfullyboastinglyboastiveboastlessboastlyboastsomeboastworthyoutboastoverboastunboasted

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Etymology

From Middle English bosten, from bost (“boast, glory, noise, arrogance, presumption, pride, vanity”), probably of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“inflated, swollen, puffed up, proud, arrogant, bad”). Cognate with Scots bost, boist (“to threaten, brag, boast”), Anglo-Norman bost (“ostentation”) (from Germanic). Related to Norwegian baus (“proud, bold, daring”), dialectal German baustern (“to swell”), German böse (“evil, bad, angry”), Dutch boos (“evil, wicked, angry”), West Frisian boas (“bad, wicked, angry, shrewd, clever”). Compare also dialectal Norwegian baus…

bosten Middle English *bausuz Proto-Germanic

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# boast

**Type:** Word
**Level:** B1
**Part of speech:** verb, noun
**IPA (US):** /boʊst/
**IPA (UK):** /bəʊst/
**Frequency rank:** 14851

## Meanings
1. To talk proudly about yourself or what you have done.
2. (of a place or thing) To have something good worth being proud of.
3. Something you say proudly about yourself.

## Examples
- He boasted about his new car all evening.
- The hotel boasts one of the best views of the sea.
- It was his regular boast that he never got sick.

## Synonyms
- brag
- crow
- vaunt

## Antonyms
- depreciate

## Derived Forms
- boaster
- boastful
- boastfully
- boastingly
- boastive
- boastless
- boastly
- boastsome
- boastworthy
- outboast
- overboast
- unboasted

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: bosten
- Root: *bausuz

## Etymology
From Middle English bosten, from bost (“boast, glory, noise, arrogance, presumption, pride, vanity”), probably of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“inflated, swollen, puffed up, proud, arrogant, bad”). Cognate with Scots bost, boist (“to threaten, brag, boast”), Anglo-Norman bost (“ostentation”) (from Germanic). Related to Norwegian baus (“proud, bold, daring”), dialectal German baustern (“to swell”), German böse (“evil, bad, angry”), Dutch boos (“evil, wicked, angry”), West Frisian boas (“bad, wicked, angry, shrewd, clever”). Compare also dialectal Norwegian baus…

## AI Etymology
Boast comes from Middle English bosten, from bost (“boast, glory, noise, arrogance, presumption, pride, vanity”), probably of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bausuz (“inflated, swollen, puffed up, proud, arrogant, bad”). Cognate with Scots bost, boist (“to threaten, brag, boast”), Anglo-Norman bost (“ostentation”) (from Germanic). Related to Norwegian baus (“proud, bold, daring”), dialectal German baustern (“to swell”), German böse (“evil, bad, angry”), Dutch boos (“evil, wicked, angry”), West Frisian boas (“bad, wicked, angry, shrewd, clever”).

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