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Word entry · 12 letters

extravaganza

Best crossword clue

"Lavish show"

12 letters · collected on this word page

12 lettersPronunciation /ɪkˌstɹæv.əˈɡæn.zə/Part of speech nounSorted aaaaegnrtvxzStarts with EEnds with A1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. any lavishly staged or spectacular entertainment

Word origin

From Italian stravaganza under influence from English extravagance.

Used in a sentence

  • It grew out of the Victorian “extravaganza” style, which took serious opera and literature and applied broad comic satire (usually with music) that played to the masses.
  • The bride had her heart set on a simple wedding, but her parents insisted on a three-hundred-guest extravaganza.
  • I find myself on Christmas day with people who are so tedious that a trip to the john appears an extravaganza by comparison.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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