Boast is valid Scrabble Word

Is boast a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is boast valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
7 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for BOAST in dictionary:

VERB:

to brag
(of a person, place, or thing) possess (a feature that is a source of pride)
To vaunt one\'s self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one\'s self or of things belonging to one\'s self; as, to boast of one\'s exploits courage, descent, wealth.
To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.
To display in ostentatious language; to speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.
To display vaingloriously.
To possess or have; as, to boast a name.
To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel.
To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
show off

wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner
talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities
speak too proudly about one's talents etc

NOUN:

an act of talking with excessive pride and self-satisfaction
(in squash) a stroke in which the ball is made to hit one of the side walls before hitting the front wall.
Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
The cause of boasting; occasion of pride or exultation, -- sometimes of laudable pride or exultation.
speaking of yourself in superlatives
bragging statement

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

speak too proudly about one\'s talents etc

Words related to BOAST

boasted10 boaster9 boasters10 boasting11 boastingly16 boastings12 boastless11 boasts8 skite9

Words that contain BOAST

boasts8 boasted10 boaster9 boasters10 boastful13 boasting11 outboast10 boastings12 boastless11 outboasts11 boastfully18 boastingly16 outboasted13 unboastful15 outboasting14 boastfulness17 boastfulnesses19

How to use BOAST in a sentence

Therefore they were not to boast of themselves, their numbers, their wealth, their armies, their fair and fertile land.
Dorsey had made his boast in the presence of a crowd.
The present century cannot boast of any great characteristic style in either architecture or ornament.
The State could boast one woman who was an able lawyer, Mrs.
She wore a red ribbon in her hair, and was the only one of the white company who could boast of such a pronounced adornment.
In our opening Address we carefully avoided any thing at all approaching to a boast of what we would, or even what we hoped to perform.
Some masters boast that their slaves would not be free if they could.
In later times, it was their boast that they had produced more poets than all other nations combined.
Instead of being the reproach of His followers, it was to be their boast and their glory.
It may with safety be asserted, that no church or abbey in England can boast of such an elegant elevation.

He felt that her words were no mere idle boast, and he longed to see an exhibition of her skilful riding.
He had proposed to make that feat the boast and the crowning point of his tenure of office.
It was hardly in keeping with his boast of persistence that he should suffer himself to be thus routed by a single reverse, however crushing.
He would want to boast, she had said, that he had a son in the army.
I shall take, as the subject of the present lecture, Chaucer and Spenser, two out of four of the greatest names in poetry, which this country has to boast.
He had his pride of family, strange to say, though nursed and nestled in a bosom which could boast no other virtue.
And not only is this so, but it is now possible to see also that we boast great superiority over them in numbers.
And it was his boast that more wealth passed in and out of his doors than those of any house in Leaping Horse, except the bank.
Nor had the Austrian general much cause to boast of his victory.
Though Tennessee can boast of considerable mineral wealth, her advantages are not equal to those of Missouri or North Carolina.
He pretended to be contemptuous of her refusal to let him get up, but in fact he was glad of an excuse for not making good his boast.
The extraordinary thing is, that it is the chief boast of a people who have Shakespeare, Newton, Burke, and Darwin to boast of.
Old men boast of their age and young ones of their youth.
His boast had always been that, when Wingenund sought to elude his pursuers, his trail faded among the moss and the ferns.
No person can boast to get a plantation completely filled up and in perfect order much sooner than fifteen years.
As the lad could boast a considerable former experience with the supernatural thereabouts his word had the weight justly due to the testimony of an expert.
One point, however, may be selected, that exhibits in a single prospect all that the capital can boast of this description.
I was her idol and she wrought at night To keep me at my books, and used to boast That I should rise above our humble lot.
Castanado free to embrace her kneeling husband and boast again the power of prayer.

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