- the impressive clothes, decorations, music, etc. and traditional customs that are part of an official occasion or ceremony
- all the pomp and ceremony of a royal wedding
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French pompe, via Latin from Greek pompē ‘procession, pomp’, from pempein ‘send’.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See pomp in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarypomp and circumstance
- formal and impressive ceremony
- Funerals of famous people were conducted with great pomp and circumstance.
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