pomp and circumstance en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) A display of ceremonial grandeur.
Complete with a ribbon cutting and plenty of pomp and circumstance, the opening was attended by 100 to 200 people, most of them Canadian mathematicians.
1992, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, American Mathematical Society, page 565:The pomp and circumstance of the Queen’s coronation.
And you know that Gretchen is the woman I love and intend to marry, and she has her heart set on a big wedding with lots of pomp and circumstance.
2015, Jessica Clare, The Taming of the Billionaire, page 108:This was pomp and circumstance beyond anything she had expected and she knew she was up next.
2007, Mike Mullane, Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut, page 194:Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
Translations (11)
de Schaugepränge (ceremonial grandeur) · nl pracht en praal (ceremonial grandeur) · is pomp og prakt (ceremonial grandeur) · de Glanz und Gloria (ceremonial grandeur) · de Pomp und Zeremonien (ceremonial grandeur) · de Pomp und Prunk (ceremonial grandeur) · sv pompa och ståt (ceremonial grandeur) · de Pracht und Herrlichkeit (ceremonial grandeur) · nb pomp og prakt (ceremonial grandeur) · fr en grande pompe (ceremonial grandeur) · cy rhwysg a rhodres (ceremonial grandeur)