Fanfare vs Pomp - What's the difference?
fanfare | pomp |
(countable) A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.
(uncountable) A show of ceremony or celebration.
Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
* 1698 . "A person of quality" [Pierre Nicole]. Moral Essayes, Contain'd in Several Treatises on Many Important Duties. Vol I, p95.
* , Episode 12, The Cyclops
A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
* Addison
As nouns the difference between fanfare and pomp
is that fanfare is a flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase while pomp is show of magnificence; parade; display; power.As a verb pomp is
to make a pompous display; to conduct.fanfare
English
Noun
- They played a short fanfare to announce the arrival of the king.
- The town opened the new library with fanfare and a speech from the mayor.
pomp
English
Noun
- "'Tis a gross visible errour, which Tertullian teaches in his Book of Idolatry cap. 18. That all the marks of Dignity and Power, and all the ornaments annexed to Office, are forbid Christians, and that Jesus Christ hath plac'd all these things amongst the pomps of the Devil, since he himself appeared in a condition so far from all pomp and splendour."
- The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.
- all the pomps of a Roman triumph