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Definition: Fanfare |
FanfareNoun1. A showy outward display. 2. A short lively tune played on brass instruments; "he entered to a flourish of trumpets"; "her arrival was greeted with a rousing fanfare". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fanfare" was first used: 1605. (references) |
Etymology: Fanfare \Fan"fare`\, noun. [French expression compare to Fanfaron.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Fine Arts | Fr. Either flourish of trumpets or Brass Band. . . . a band of merely brass and percussion. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: FanfareSynonyms: flourish (n), ostentation (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Celebration | Triumphal arch, bonfire, salute; salvo, salvo of artillery; feu de joie, flourish of trumpets, fanfare, colors flying, illuminations. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fanfare |
| English words defined with "fanfare": trump, trump out, Tucket. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fanfare" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (fanfare, flourish), French (band, blast, brass band, fanfare), German (fanfare, flourish, multitone horn), Norwegian (flourish), Serbo-Croatian (fanfare). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fanfare for the Common Man (1974) De Zuidnederlandse fanfare (1972) Fanfare (1965) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
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Music |
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| "Fanfare 5" by Peter Franken Commentary: "A serenade by Fanfare Juliana, Limmel Maastricht." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Microsoft announced an 83% growth in annual revenues as Windows retains the major market share in operation systems with the launch of Windows 2000 in China during March 2000. In August 2000, domestic producer Red Flag Software launched Linux Desktop 2.0 System with similar fanfare including a contract with TCL as a leading information appliance vendor to preinstall the system under an OEM agreement. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Last year, with very little fanfare the Congress and the executive branch moved in that field. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Fanfare" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.67% of the time. "Fanfare" is used about 79 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) | 93.67% | 74 | 38,813 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.8% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 1.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 79 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "fanfare": with much fanfare. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "fanfare": fanfare-like. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 "fanfare"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fanfarë (wind orchestra). (various references) | |
Arabic | نفخ البوق, تبويق, زوبعة (cyclone, gust, hurricane, storm, tornado, whirlwind), جلبة (clamor, clamour, clatter, din, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly burly, noise, pandemonium, racket, roar, tumult, uproar). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фанфара (flourish, tucket). (various references) | |
Czech | fanfára (cadenza, flourish). (various references) | |
Dutch | fanfarekorps (flourish), fanfare (flourish). (various references) | |
Esperanto | fanfaro (flourish). (various references) | |
Finnish | fanfaari. (various references) | |
French | fanfare. (various references) | |
German | fanfare (flourish, multitone horn), tusch (flourish). (various references) | |
Greek | σαλπίσματα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תרועת חצוורות (flourish, trumpet call). (various references) | |
Hungarian | harsonaszó (flourish, flourish of trumpets). (various references) | |
Italian | fanfara (brass band). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鳴り物 (a musical instrument, music), ファロー鹿 (fallow deer, fan, fan club, fancy, fancy ball, fancy dress, fancy food, fancy goods, fancy store, fan-jet, fan-out, fantastic, fantasy, feasibility study, feature, feed, feedback, feeder, feeding, feet, foot, foundation, fumble, fun, fun fair, function, function key, functor, fund, fund manager, fund trust, fundamental, fundamentals, funk, funky, phantom). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ファンファール (fun fair), なりもの (a musical instrument, music). (various references) | |
Manx | ym-heidey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anfarefay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fanfarra (flourish). (various references) | |
Romanian | fanfarã (brass band), sunet de trompete. (various references) | |
Russian | фанфара. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | fanfare. (various references) | |
Spanish | fanfarria de trompetas, fanfarria (arrogance, arrogancy), trompeteo. (various references) | |
Swedish | fanfar (fanfaronade, flourish). (various references) | |
Thai | การโฆษณา (billing). (various references) | |
Turkish | fanfar (flourish), tantana (flatulence, pomp, rampage), nefesli çalgıların hep birlikte çaldığı parça. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фанфара. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự phô trương loè loẹt. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Arabic | 500-Modern | farfar. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | fanfarer. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fanfare": fanfares. (additional references) | |
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"Fanfare" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: affare, Anfrage, Fainaru, Fainfray, fanfaare, fanfair, feuferme, Finbarr, Fincare, Finefare. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fanfare" (pronounced fa"nfe'r) |
| 3 | -f e' r | airfare, thoroughfare, warfare, welfare, workfare. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-f-n-r" | |
-1 letter: fraena. | |
-2 letters: anear, arena, faena, frena. | |
-3 letters: afar, area, earn, fane, fare, fear, fern, frae, near, raff. | |
-4 letters: aff, ana, ane, are, arf, ear, eff, era, ern, fan, far, fen, fer, nae, ran, ref. | |
-5 letters: aa, ae, an, ar, ef, en, er, fa, na, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-f-f-n-r" | |
+1 letter: fanfares. | |
+3 letters: affirmance, paraffined. | |
+4 letters: affirmances, fanfaronade. | |
+5 letters: fanfaronades, foraminifera, unaffordable. | |
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