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Definition: Extravaganza |
ExtravaganzaNoun1. Any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "extravaganza" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Etymology: Extravaganza \Ex*trav`a*gan"za\, noun. [Extravagance with an Italian ending: compare to Italian expression stravaganza.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imagination | Conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey, whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare. |
The Drama | Play, drama, stage play, piece, five-act play, tragedy, comedy, opera, vaudeville, comedietta, lever de rideau, interlude, afterpiece, exode, farce, divertissement, extravaganza, burletta, harlequinade, pantomime, burlesque, opera bouffe, ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame; melodrama, melodrame; comidie larmoyante, sensation drama; tragicomedy, farcical-comedy; monodrame monologue;duologue trilogy; charade, proverbs; mystery, miracle play; musical, musical comedy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Extravaganza |
| Specialty definitions using "extravaganza": Castagnette. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "extravaganza": Extravagance. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fiesta extravaganza (1971) Cher: Extravaganza - Live at the Mirage (1992) Extravaganza (1991) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Rice's Evangeline extravaganza company. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The High Rollers Extravaganza Co. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Hurly-Burly Extravaganza and Refined Vaudeville. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rice's Extravaganza Combination. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Gay Masqueraders Gorgeous Extravaganza Co. everything new. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Blaney's extravaganza success, A female drummer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Will F. Phillips' complicated farcical extravaganza, A bell boy. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The big extravaganza success, Over the fence by Owen Davis. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Fred R. Hamlin's musical extravaganza, The wizard of Oz. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Reruns : a multi-billion dollar extravaganza, filmed on location on the shores of the Potomac, starring Jimmy Carter ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Economic History | Egypt | It has evolved from its beginnings as a "required" government annual extravaganza to today's version of a county fair aimed at consumer purchasers. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Extravaganza" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.83% of the time. "Extravaganza" is used about 126 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.83% | 122 | 29,069 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.17% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 126 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "extravaganza"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | veprim pa menduar, shfaqje fantastike. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фарс (burlesque, farce, interlude, mockery, quiz), фантастично произведение, ексцентрично произведение, бурлеска (burlesque). (various references) | |
Chinese | 狂妄剧. (various references) | |
Farsi | فانتزی (Phantasy), گزاف گوءی (Bounce, Hyperbole), اغراق (Hyperbole), اثریاتصنیف ازیک شخصیت خیالی , اثرخیالی . (various references) | |
German | phantastische komposition. (various references) | |
Greek | φιέστα (fiesta), αλλόκοτο θεατρικό έργο, δαπανηρό θεατρικό έργο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | látványos vígopera, fantasztikusan szertelen mű. (various references) | |
Italian | composizione fantastica. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 仁輪 狂言 (farce). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | にわかきょう'" (farce, impromptu skit). (various references) | |
Manx | seyr-ghreeaght. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | extravaganzaay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | composição (composing, composition, consistency, essay, make-up, opus, typesetting). (various references) | |
Russian | фантастическая пьеса, нелепая выходка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ekstravaganca. (various references) | |
Spanish | extravagancia (extravagance, flamboyance, flamboyancy, oddness, outlandishness, vagary, wantonness, whim, wildness). (various references) | |
Swedish | utstyrselpjäs, fantasi (fanciful, fancy, fantasia, fantasy, imagination, imaginative power, make believe, make-believe, phantasy). (various references) | |
Turkish | zengin dekorlu piyes, serbest tarzda müzik, fantezi müzik. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | екстравагантність, буфонада (buffoonery). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tác phẩm phóng túng lời lẽ ngông cu"ng, h nh vi ngông cu"ng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "extravaganza": extravaganzas. (additional references) | |
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"Extravaganza" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: extravaganze, extravagenza, extraveganza, extraviganza. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "extravaganza" (pronounced ikstra'vuga"nzu) |
| 4 | -a" n z u | bonanza, stanza. |
| 3 | -n z u | influenza, kwanza. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-a-e-g-n-r-t-v-x-z" | |
-4 letters: tzarevna. | |
-5 letters: tanager, taverna, vagrant, vantage. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-a-e-g-n-r-t-v-x-z" | |
+1 letter: extravaganzas. | |
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