different between adorn vs adorner

English

Etymology

From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin ad?rn?re, present active infinitive of ad?rn?; from ad +? ?rn? (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old French aorner, from the same Latin source.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??d??n/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /??d??(?)n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n

Verb

adorn (third-person singular simple present adorns, present participle adorning, simple past and past participle adorned)

1. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
   • 1770, Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village

     At church, with meek and unaffected grace, / His looks adorned the venerable place.

Synonyms

• beautify
• bedeck
• decorate
• deck
• grace
• ornament
• prettify
• See also Thesaurus:decorate

Translations

Noun

adorn

1. (obsolete) adornment

Adjective

adorn

1. (obsolete) adorned; ornate

Related terms

Anagrams

• Ardon, Daron, Doran, Drona, NORAD, Nador, Nardo, Ronda, and/or, andro, andro-, norad, radon, rando

English

Etymology

adorn +? -er

Noun

adorner (plural adorners)

1. One who places adornments; one who adorns.

Translations

Anagrams

• Reardon, readorn

French

Etymology

Circa 1331 adourner, circa 1370 adorner. Borrowed from Latin ad?rn? and from Latin ad?rdin?. Replaced Old French, Middle French aorner, a borrowing from the same sources.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d??.ne/

Verb

adorner

1. (literary or dated) to adorn; to decorate

Conjugation

References

Further reading

• “adorner” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

ad?rner

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of ad?rn?