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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 is pronounced /ˈæɡɹənˌdaɪzmənt/ — A-gruhn-dahyz-muhnt. 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.