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Meaning of tympany | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈtɪmpəni

Definitions

  1. The sound made by beating a drum.
    countable, uncountable
  2. Tympanites (distention of the abdomen).
    countable, uncountable
  3. Inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Gàidhlig seid

Examples

“Thine's a tympany of sense.”
“Dr. Johnson, for his triads and his antithetic balances, he taxes more than once with a plethoric and tautologic tympany of sentence”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

tympf Tynaarlo Tynan Tynda Tyndale Tyndall

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