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decoration

English

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Etymology

From Latin decoratio: compare French décoration.Morphologically decorate +? -ion

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?d?k???e???n/
  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

decoration (countable and uncountable, plural decorations)

  1. The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
  2. Any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment or ornamentation.
  3. Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.
  4. (biochemistry, immunology) The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host

Related terms

  • decorate

Translations

References

  • (etymology) decoration in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

  • carotenoid, co-ordinate, coordinate, coronadite, coördinate

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laurels

English

Noun

laurels

  1. plural of laurel
    Two mountain laurels were in bloom.

Noun

laurels pl (plural only)

  1. Honors. From the Ancient Greek practice of crowning victors with a branch from the laurel bush, sacred to Apollo.

See also

  • mountain laurel
  • rest on one's laurels
  • laureate

Verb

laurels

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of laurel

Anagrams

  • allures

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