Usually means: Pompous or extravagant in style.
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  1. grandiloquence: Merriam-Webster
  2. grandiloquence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grandiloquence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grandiloquence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grandiloquence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grandiloquence, grandiloquence: Wordnik
  7. grandiloquence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grandiloquence: Wiktionary
  9. grandiloquence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. grandiloquence: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Grandiloquence, grandiloquence: Dictionary.com
  12. grandiloquence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Grandiloquence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Grandiloquence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. grandiloquence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. grandiloquence: Rhymezone
  17. Grandiloquence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. grandiloquence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. grandiloquence: FreeDictionary.org
  20. grandiloquence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. grandiloquence: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grandiloquence: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grandiloquence: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grandiloquence: Wordcraft Dictionary

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noun:  Lofty, pompous or bombastic speech or writing.

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