1 ~ (about / of sth) to talk with too much pride about sth that you have or can do:
[V] I don't want to boast, but I can actually speak six languages. * She is always boasting about how wonderful her children are. * He openly boasted of his skill as a burglar. * [Vthat] Sam boasted that she could beat anyone at poker. [also Vspeech]
2 [VN] (not used in the progressive tenses) (written) to have sth that is impressive and that you can be proud of:
The hotel also boasts two swimming pools and a golf course. * Rhodes boasts 300 days of sunshine a year.
noun ~ (that...) (often disapproving) something that a person talks about in a very proud way, often to seem more important or clever:
Despite his boasts that his children were brilliant, neither of them went to college. * It was her proud boast that she had never missed a day's work because of illness. * Her claim that she could beat us all was clearly no idle / empty boast (= it was true).
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for boast is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is boast a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, boast is tagged as verb.
Does boast appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — boast appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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