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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

decoration From the web:

  • what decorations are used for day of the dead
  • what decorations do goldfish like
  • what decorations are used for halloween
  • what decorations are needed for a wedding
  • what decorations do guppies like
  • what decorations are good for betta fish
  • what decorations are used in the altars
  • what decorations are used for christmas

ornaments

English

Pronunciation

Noun

ornaments

  1. plural of ornament

Verb

ornaments

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

Anagrams

  • semantron

Catalan

Noun

ornaments

  1. plural of ornament

Latvian

Noun

ornaments m (1st declension)

  1. ornament
  2. decoration

Declension

ornaments From the web:

  • what ornaments are worth money
  • what ornaments to put on a sideboard
  • what ornaments are safe for fish tank
  • what ornaments to put on shelves
  • what ornaments do goldfish like
  • what ornaments to put in a bay window
  • what ornaments to put on fireplace
  • what ornaments to put in bathroom
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