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Fanfare vs Fanfarelike - What's the difference?

fanfare | fanfarelike |

As a noun fanfare

is a flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.

As an adjective fanfarelike is

resembling a fanfare.

fanfare

English

Noun

  • (countable) A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
    • They played a short fanfare to announce the arrival of the king.
  • (uncountable) A show of ceremony or celebration.
    • The town opened the new library with fanfare and a speech from the mayor.

    fanfarelike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a fanfare.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 23, author=Allan Kozinn, title=Bach’s Strolls and Puzzles in All Keys, Major and Minor, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=His reading of the C sharp minor Prelude from Book I, for example, was flexible and introspective, and the D major Prelude from Book II, with its fanfarelike figuration, took on a sense of high drama, with the slowly unfolding fugue offsetting it. }}