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say it: A-gruhn-dahyz-muhnt
aggrandizement is a noun meaning "the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something". It carries one recorded sense.
the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something
“the aggrandizement of the king”
“his elevation to cardinal”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for aggrandizement come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.