Usually means: Pompous language with little meaning.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. bombast: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bombast: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bombast: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bombast: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bombast: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bombast, bombast: Wordnik
  7. bombast: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bombast: Wiktionary
  9. bombast: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bombast: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bombast: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bombast: Dictionary.com
  13. bombast (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Bombast: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Bombast: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. bombast: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. bombast: Rhymezone
  18. Bombast: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. bombast: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. bombast: Free Dictionary
  21. bombast: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Bombast: The Word Detective
  23. bombast: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bombast: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bombast: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bombast: A Word A Day
  2. bombast: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bombast)

noun:  (archaic) Cotton, or cotton wool.
noun:  (archaic) Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing, padding.
noun:  (figurative) High-sounding words; language above the dignity of the occasion; a pompous or ostentatious manner of writing or speaking.
verb:  To swell or fill out; to inflate, to pad.
verb:  To use high-sounding words; to speak or write in a pompous or ostentatious manner.
adjective:  Big without meaning, or high-sounding; bombastic, inflated; magniloquent.

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