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high-flown definition

high-flown (hī′flōn′)

adjective

  1. extravagantly ambitious or aspiring
  2. high-sounding but meaningless; bombastic

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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