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fanfare

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun fanfare has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

fanfaren. [F. Cf. Fanfaron.].
     A flourish of trumpets, as in coming into the lists, etc.; also, a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.  [1913 Webster]
    "The fanfare announcing the arrival of the various Christian princes."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fanfare, n.
1 a short showy or ceremonious sounding of trumpets, bugles, etc.
2 an elaborate welcome.

Etymology
F, imit.

THESAURUS

fanfare

Aldine, Arabesque, Byzantine, Canevari, Etruscan, Grolier, Harleian, Jansenist, Maioli, Roxburgh, ado, anniversaries, array, ballyhoo, bay, beep, blare, blast, blat, bray, brouhaha, celebrating, celebration, ceremony, commemoration, commotion, cottage, dentelle, dressing ship, fanfaron, fanfaronade, festivity, flourish, flourish of trumpets, fuss, holiday, honk, hubbub, hullabaloo, jubilee, marking the occasion, memorialization, memory, observance, ovation, panoply, parade, peal, pointille, pomp, rejoicing, religious rites, remembrance, revel, rite, ritual observance, salute, salvo, shine, show, shriek, solemn observance, solemnization, squeal, stir, tantara, tantarara, taps, tarantara, tattoo, testimonial, testimonial banquet, testimonial dinner, to-do, toast, toot, tootle, tribute, triumph, trumpet, trumpet blast, trumpet call, tweedle, whistle

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fanfare

Celebration

N celebration, solemnization, jubilee, commemoration, ovation, paean, triumph, jubilation, ceremony (rite), holiday, fiesta, zarabanda, revelry, feast (amusement), china anniversary, diamond anniversary, golden anniversary, silver anniversary, tin anniversary, china jubilee, diamond jubilee, golden jubilee, silver jubilee, tin jubilee, china wedding, diamond wedding, golden wedding, silver wedding, tin wedding, triumphal arch, bonfire, salute, salvo, salvo of artillery, feu de joie, flourish of trumpets, fanfare, colors flying, illuminations, inauguration, installation, presentation, coronation, Lord Mayor's show, harvest-home, red-letter day, trophy, Te Deum, fete, holiday, Forefathers' Day, celebrating, commemorative, celebrated, immortal, in honor of, in commemoration of, Int, hail!, all hail!, io paean, io triumphe!, see the conquering hero comes!.

Loudness

N loudness, power, loud noise, din, blare, clang, clangor, clatter, noise, bombilation, roar, uproar, racket, hubbub, bobbery, fracas, charivari, trumpet blast, flourish of trumpets, fanfare, tintamarre, peal, swell, blast, larum, boom, bang (explosion), resonance, vociferation, hullabaloo, lungs, Stentor, artillery, cannon, thunder, loud, sonorous, high-sounding, big-sounding, deep, full, powerful, noisy, blatant, clangorous, multisonous, thundering, deafening, trumpet-tongued, ear-splitting, ear-rending, ear-deafening, piercing, obstreperous, rackety, uproarious, enough to wake the dead, enough to wake seven sleepers, shrill &c 410 clamorous stentorian, stentorophonic, loudly, aloud, at the top of one's voice, at the top of one's lungs, lustily, in full cry, the air rings with, the deep dread-bolted thunder.

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