aggrandisement

1. 1.

   the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something

   “the aggrandizement of the king”

   “his elevation to cardinal”

   Synonymsaggrandizementelevation

   Broaderincrease

   Narrowerself-aggrandizement

Other forms of aggrandisement

plural

aggrandisements·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about aggrandisement

What does aggrandisement mean?

aggrandisement means "the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something".

How many syllables are in aggrandisement?

aggrandisement has 5 syllables: ag-gran-di-se-ment. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for aggrandisement?

Close synonyms include aggrandizement, elevation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is aggrandisement a common word?

aggrandisement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.