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ornament
[ noun awr-nuh-muhnt; verb awr-nuh-ment, -muhnt ]
noun
- an accessory, article, or detail used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part:
architectural ornaments.
Synonyms:
- a system, category, or style of such objects or features; ornamentation:
a book on Gothic ornament.
- any adornment or means of adornment.
Synonyms:
- a person or thing that adds to the credit or glory of a society, era, etc.
- the act of adorning.
Synonyms:
- the state of being adorned.
- mere outward display:
a speech more of ornament than of ideas.
- Chiefly Ecclesiastical. any accessory, adjunct, or equipment.
- Music. a tone or group of tones applied as decoration to a principal melodic tone.
verb (used with object)
- to furnish with ornaments; embellish:
to ornament a musical composition.
Synonyms: , ,
- to be an ornament to:
Several famous scientists were acquired to ornament the university.
Synonyms: , ,
ornament
noun
- anything that enhances the appearance of a person or thing
- decorations collectively
she was totally without ornament
- a small decorative object
- something regarded as a source of pride or beauty
- music any of several decorations, such as the trill, mordent, etc, occurring chiefly as improvised embellishments in baroque music
verb
- to decorate with or as if with ornaments
- to serve as an ornament to
Derived Forms
- ˌǰԲˈٲپDz, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- ǰn·Գe noun
- v·ǰn·Գ verb (used with object)
- ·ǰn·Գ verb (used with object)
- p·ǰn·Գ noun
- p·ǰn·Գ verb (used with object)
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of ornament1
Example Sentences
As one of the few people allowed into the Palisades in the first days after the fire, she regularly came across garden ornaments or knickknacks that survived the flames.
She lost hundreds of ornaments, and fire swept through a couple dozen miniature Christmas villages that were boxed up for the next holiday season.
In 1888, when it was already of Social Security age, the newest landowner, a Mr. Saunders, moved it and two of its brethren to ornament the entrance to the Southern Pacific’s Arcade train depot.
Horizontal bands of silver and gold march in a rhythmic pattern down the right side of the goddess’ face, ornament that may represent the elaborate body tattoos popular among Thracians.
At his sister's home back on West Las Flores Drive, he finds multi-coloured plastic lawn ornaments stuck in her lawn, somehow untouched by fire.
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