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DictionaryboastProud statement
noun / verb

boast

BOHST/bəʊst/

To display or express pride in something impressive.

The athlete boasts about her success while displaying her medal and trophy.

A medal-wearing athlete talks animatedly while pointing to herself and displaying a large trophy; her listener's weary, unimpressed reaction makes the self-praise read as excessive rather than ordinary celebration.
Etymology
boastAnglo-Frenchostentation

Bost meant ostentation: a conspicuous display of pride. Boasting expresses that display in words, drawing attention to one's achievements or possessions with excessive self-praise.

In context

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The nobles would boast about having the largest number of squires, knights, and pages. They dressed them all the same with the horses all saddled up as well in a kind of representation of elemental power.
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More examples

  • He boasted about winning the tournament.
  • Her extravagant boasts annoyed the other players.
  • They have little reason to boast about the result.

Forms

boast · boasts · boasted · boasting

Similar words

brag
More plainly implies excessive pride in one's own achievements.
pride
Usually occurs as pride oneself on, without necessarily public claims.