Word Meanings - HIGHSOUNDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.

• SOUNDBOARD
  A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
• SOUNDINGBALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• Ostentatious
  Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful.
• SOUNDINGBOARD
  A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl.
• Sound-board
  A sounding-board.
• Sounding-board
  A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments.

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