inflation
(noun) the act of filling something with air
ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation
(noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity
inflation
(noun) (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang
inflation, rising prices
(noun) a general and progressive increase in prices; “in inflation everything gets more valuable except money”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
inflation (plural inflations)
An act, instance of, or state of expansion or increase in size, especially by injection of a gas.
(economics) An increase in the general level of prices or in the cost of living.
(economics) A decline in the value of money.
(economics) An increase in the quantity of money, leading to a devaluation of existing money.
Undue expansion or increase, as of academic grades.
(cosmology) An extremely rapid expansion of the universe, theorised to have occurred very shortly after the big bang.
• deflation
• inflatino
Source: Wiktionary
In*fla"tion, n. Etym: [L. inflatio: cf. F. inflation.]
1. The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement. Boyle.
2. The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity. B. Jonson.
3. Undue expansion or increase, from overissue; -- said of currency. [U.S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
30 June 2025
(adjective) affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; “bodily needs”; “a corporal defect”; “corporeal suffering”; “a somatic symptom or somatic illness”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
