pomp Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun cheap or pretentious or vain display
    gaudery.
  2. noun ceremonial elegance and splendor
    eclat.
    • entered with much eclat in a coach drawn by eight white horses

WordNet

Pomp noun
Etymology
OE. pompe, F. pompe, L. pompa, fr. Gr. a sending, a solemn procession, pomp, fr. to send. Cf. Pump a shoe.
Definitions
  1. A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant. "All the pomps of a Roman triumph." Addison.
  2. Show of magnificence; parade; display; power. Syn. -- Display; parade; pageant; pageantry; splendor; state; magnificence; ostentation; grandeur; pride.
Pomp intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To make a pompons display; to conduct. Obs. B. Jonson.

Webster 1913