He came on board this company with a lot of fanfare and he turns out to have the skill and talent to live up to it.
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Fanfare
//ˈfænfɛə//
Synonyms for "fanfare" (93 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (28)
Related words (46)
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1 entriesderived
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22 entriesShowing 16 of 22 words.
Translations
30 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- фанфа́р noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
Catalan
2 entries- fanfara noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
- fanfàrria noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
Czech
1 entries- fanfára noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
Dutch
1 entries- fanfare noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
Esperanto
1 entries- fanfaro noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
Finnish
2 entries- fanfaari noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
- torvisoitto noun (a show of ceremony or celebration)
French
1 entries- fanfare noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
German
1 entries- Fanfare noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
Hebrew
1 entries- תְּרוּעָה noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
Hungarian
2 entries- fanfár noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
- harsonaszó noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
Indonesian
1 entries- fanfare noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
Japanese
2 entries- ファンファーレ noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
- 鳴り物入り noun (a show of ceremony or celebration)
Korean
1 entries- 팡파르 noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- fanfara noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
Ottoman Turkish
3 entries- شان noun (a show of ceremony or celebration)
- طنطنه noun (a show of ceremony or celebration)
- نمایش noun (a show of ceremony or celebration)
Polish
1 entries- fanfara noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
Portuguese
2 entries- fanfarra noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
- fanfarra noun (a show of ceremony or celebration)
Russian
2 entries- фанфа́ра noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
- фанфа́ра noun (a show of ceremony or celebration)
Spanish
3 entries- bombo y platillo noun (a show of ceremony or celebration)
- fanfarria noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
- fanfarria noun (a show of ceremony or celebration)
Swedish
1 entries- fanfar noun (a flourish of trumpets or horns)
Sample sentences
44 total sentences available.
In Mexico, most small towns have a patron saint whose feast day is celebrated with great fanfare.
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Tom celebrated his fortieth the other day, without fanfare or trumpets.
Source: tatoeba (3814792)
Tom celebrated his fortieth birthday the other day, without fanfare or trumpets.
Source: tatoeba (3854926)
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