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Meaning of "rodomontade" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RODOMONTADE

From French, from Italian rodomonte a boaster, from Rodomonte the name of a braggart king of Algiers in epic poems by Boiardo and Ariosto.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF RODOMONTADE

rodomontade  [ˌrɒdəmɒnˈteɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RODOMONTADE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rodomontade is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb rodomontade in English.

WHAT DOES RODOMONTADE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rodomontade

Rodomontade \rod-uh-muhn-TADE; roh-duh-muhn-TAHD\ is a mass noun meaning boastful talk or behavior. The term is a reference to Rodomonte, a character in Italian Renaissance epic poems Orlando innamorato and its sequel Orlando furioso.

Definition of rodomontade in the English dictionary

The definition of rodomontade in the dictionary is boastful words or behaviour; bragging. Other definition of rodomontade is to boast, bluster, or rant.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO RODOMONTADE

PRESENT

Present
I rodomontade
you rodomontade
he/she/it rodomontades
we rodomontade
you rodomontade
they rodomontade
Present continuous
I am rodomontading
you are rodomontading
he/she/it is rodomontading
we are rodomontading
you are rodomontading
they are rodomontading
Present perfect
I have rodomontaded
you have rodomontaded
he/she/it has rodomontaded
we have rodomontaded
you have rodomontaded
they have rodomontaded
Present perfect continuous
I have been rodomontading
you have been rodomontading
he/she/it has been rodomontading
we have been rodomontading
you have been rodomontading
they have been rodomontading
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I rodomontaded
you rodomontaded
he/she/it rodomontaded
we rodomontaded
you rodomontaded
they rodomontaded
Past continuous
I was rodomontading
you were rodomontading
he/she/it was rodomontading
we were rodomontading
you were rodomontading
they were rodomontading
Past perfect
I had rodomontaded
you had rodomontaded
he/she/it had rodomontaded
we had rodomontaded
you had rodomontaded
they had rodomontaded
Past perfect continuous
I had been rodomontading
you had been rodomontading
he/she/it had been rodomontading
we had been rodomontading
you had been rodomontading
they had been rodomontading
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will rodomontade
you will rodomontade
he/she/it will rodomontade
we will rodomontade
you will rodomontade
they will rodomontade
Future continuous
I will be rodomontading
you will be rodomontading
he/she/it will be rodomontading
we will be rodomontading
you will be rodomontading
they will be rodomontading
Future perfect
I will have rodomontaded
you will have rodomontaded
he/she/it will have rodomontaded
we will have rodomontaded
you will have rodomontaded
they will have rodomontaded
Future perfect continuous
I will have been rodomontading
you will have been rodomontading
he/she/it will have been rodomontading
we will have been rodomontading
you will have been rodomontading
they will have been rodomontading
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would rodomontade
you would rodomontade
he/she/it would rodomontade
we would rodomontade
you would rodomontade
they would rodomontade
Conditional continuous
I would be rodomontading
you would be rodomontading
he/she/it would be rodomontading
we would be rodomontading
you would be rodomontading
they would be rodomontading
Conditional perfect
I would have rodomontade
you would have rodomontade
he/she/it would have rodomontade
we would have rodomontade
you would have rodomontade
they would have rodomontade
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been rodomontading
you would have been rodomontading
he/she/it would have been rodomontading
we would have been rodomontading
you would have been rodomontading
they would have been rodomontading
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you rodomontade
we let´s rodomontade
you rodomontade
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to rodomontade
Past participle
rodomontaded
Present Participle
rodomontading
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RODOMONTADE


afraid
əˈfreɪd
aid
eɪd
aide
eɪd
arcade
ɑːˈkeɪd
blade
bleɪd
crescentade
ˈkrɛs ənˌteɪd
decade
ˈdɛkeɪd
grade
ɡreɪd
handmade
ˌhændˈmeɪd
laid
leɪd
made
meɪd
paid
peɪd
parade
pəˈreɪd
rhodomontade
ˌrɒdəʊmɒnˈteɪd
staid
steɪd
stormstayed
ˈstɔːmˌsteɪd
trade
treɪd
unstaid
ʌnˈsteɪd
unstayed
ʌnˈsteɪd
upgrade
ʌpˈɡreɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RODOMONTADE

rodent
rodent operative
rodent ulcer
rodent-like
rodenticide
rodeo
Roderic
rodfisher
rodfishing
Rodgers
rodgersia
Rodin
roding
rodless
rodlike
rodman
Rodney
rodomontader
Rodrigo
rodster

WORDS THAT END LIKE RODOMONTADE

boutade
brigade
call a spade a spade
cascade
croustade
custom-made
digitigrade
fade
grenade
hade
hit parade
home-made
jade
lade
lemonade
make the grade
on the upgrade
promenade
spade
wade

Synonyms and antonyms of rodomontade in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «rodomontade» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RODOMONTADE

Find out the translation of rodomontade to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rodomontade from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rodomontade» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

rodomontade
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rodomontade
570 millions of speakers

English

rodomontade
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

rodomontade
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تفاخر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

rodomontade
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

rodomontade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অসার দম্ভ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

rodomontade
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Rodomontade
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Prahlerei
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

大言壮語
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

호언 장담
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rodomontade
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự khoe khoang
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தற்பெருமை அடித்துக் கொள்கிற
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दांडगा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

övünen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rodomontade
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rodomontade
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

rodomontade
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

grozăvie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μεγαλαυχία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

opschepperij
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rodomontade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rodomontade
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rodomontade

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RODOMONTADE»

The term «rodomontade» is normally little used and occupies the 134.559 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «RODOMONTADE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «rodomontade» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «rodomontade» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rodomontade

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RODOMONTADE»

Discover the use of rodomontade in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rodomontade and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Best Words
rodomontade. (rod-ah-mon-TADE) noun pretentious, self-important boasting or behavior; bluster. She knows what she's about; but he, poor fool, deludes himself with the notion that she'll make him a good wife, and because she has amused ...
Robert Hartwell Fiske, 2011
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A Lexicon of French Borrowings in the German Vocabulary ...
584 robine - rodomontade Mandelslo 1645 (l639?) Schreiben 6: an einem Fischreichen riviere Olearius 1647 Reise 427: durch einen Creutzgang vnd Rivir gleichsam in 4. Gärten abgetheilet ROBINE (f.) Although not found in the standard Fr.
William Jervis Jones, 1976
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... gasconade, mouth, prate, puff, rodomontade, vaunt con apologize, deprecate braggadocian adj syn BOASTFUL, braggart, braggy, rodomontade, self-glorifying , vaunting braggadocio n syn BRAGGART, blower, blowhard, boaster, bragger, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
4
The Persian Empire in English Renaissance Writing, 1549-1622
You have to cut and paste a little, but that doesn't mean what you do is mere persiflage and rodomontade. It's not. The terrible pain that only a lover can feel is, as I can attest myself, quite real.' In this extract from his recent translation of ...
Jane Grogan, 2014
5
The Invention of the Sonnet and Other Studies in Italian ...
... as rodomont and rodomontade; into Dutch as rodomontade; into German as rodomont, rodomontade, rodomontadisch, and rodomontieren ; and into English as rodomont (variously spelled), rodomontade (variously spelled), rodomontader,  ...
Ernest Hatch Wilkins, 1959
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Dictionnaire françois-anglois et anglois-françois ... revue ...
RODOMONTADE (r6d-o-m8ir-t61e '), »• [an empty noisy blusier or boast] Rodomontade, f. fanfarannade, (. To RODOMONTADE, -ING, -ED, v, n. [to bont like Rodomonte] Poire des Rodomontades, feire te rodommt. KOE (r6), [a species of deer] ...
Louis Chambaud, 1815
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A Metrical Theory of Stress and Destressing in English and Dutch
A derivation of rodomontade, to which we will return in section 2.6, captures this: ( 40) * . . * * (* .) (*) (*) (* .) (*) (*) rodomontade => rodomontade => rodomontade Sonorant retraction is blocked in the same way as it is in salamandroid, ...
René Kager, 1989
8
Word Power Made Easy
True /False (8) Those who indulge in rodomontade are braggarts. True /False (9) An ingrate is generous. True/False (10) The ones who commit rapine are savage. True/False Answers: 1 — False; 2 — True; 3 — False; 4 — False; 5 — True; ...
Namrata Palta, 2006
9
Boyer's Royal Dictionary Abridged: In Two Parts, 1. French ...
To rodomontade, v n. faire des rodomontades, faire le rodomont, fe vanter des grands exploits v/u\n n'a jamais faits. . Roe, f. chevrette, femelle du chevreuil. Л roe-buck, un chevreutl. The hirri-roe of a fiih, oeufs de pùffntj m. The foft-roc of a fi!
Abel Boyer, 1793
10
White Terror: Cossack Warlords of the Trans-Siberian
5. RODOMONTADE. AND. GIRLS. WITH. DIAMONDS. January–April. 1919. A private letter from Semipalatinsk, on the Irtysh River in Western Siberia, reported that the entire population was dying of starvation. The dead were said to be lying  ...
Jamie Bisher, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RODOMONTADE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rodomontade is used in the context of the following news items.
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Countdown veteran GILES BRANDRETH celebrates his love of the …
The late Spike Milligan favoured the simple 'fish' while for former MP Ann Widdecombe there's delight to be found in 'rodomontade', (meaning boastful ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
2
Can Australia sink any further in its treatment of asylum seekers?
Boastful. Was Shaun Davis (Letters, June 13-14) being a little rodomontade himself by using the word rodomontade? Michael Deeth Como West ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
3
Feminism: Challenging inequality or pernicious social engineering?
I define Feminism as the following: “The advocacy of a vitriolic rodomontade on men, blaming societal maladies on the artificially constructed and nonsensical ... «The Mancunion, Mar 15»
4
Introspecting on the Aam Aadmi Party and its Historic Triumph
Since the eight-month-plus of the BJP rule, practically nothing has been implemented in terms of promises or glamorous rodomontade of building a New India. «Mainstream, Feb 15»
5
Liszt and Mahler, London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican, review …
The soloist was Alice Sara Ott, who despite her sylph-like frame, made the military rodomontade of Liszt's piece ring out with heroic force. As if to prove that this ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
6
You'd have to be real philistine not to know the proper word to …
Brand was more fun when he was merely full of "rodomontade", meaning boastful talk - it derives from the braggart Rodomonte, a character in the Orlando epics. «Belfast Telegraph, Jan 15»
7
Water charges: North has lessons for campaigners
At the DUP annual conference last month, First Minister Peter Robinson was careful to include the issue in a spirited rodomontade against the Alliance Party's ... «Irish Times, Dec 14»
8
Chypre: la partie turque de l'île exige une entente sur l'énergie
Tout ceci n'est que rodomontade de la part des Turcs. Ils ne bougeront pas une oreille car il existe un accord de coopération pour l'exploitation du gaz entre ... «Le Figaro, Nov 14»
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Vieille canaille
Cette affirmation aux airs de rodomontade devrait évidemment choquer le bien-pensant. Mais Jean-Pierre Hernandez, alias "Gros Pierrot" dans les rues de ... «Le Monde, Nov 14»
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THINK TWICE ABOUT BERNARD HOPKINS
... they move fluently between the incredible and the marvelous, and they announce themselves with rodomontade –anything –to make you notice –anything –to ... «The Sweet Science, Oct 14»

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