different between decoration vs pompon

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

English

Alternative forms

• pompom

Etymology

From French pompon (“ornamental tuft”)

Pronunciation

Noun

pompon (plural pompons)

1. A bundle of yarn, string, ribbon, etc. tied in the middle and left loose at the ends, so as to form a puff or ball, as for decoration or a showy prop for cheerleading.
2. A hardy garden chrysanthemum with button-like flower heads.
3. Any of several dwarf varieties of the Provence rose.

Translations

French

Etymology

Possibly from a root *pomp-, used to express roundness, or related to pompe.

Noun

pompon m (plural pompons)

1. pompon (bundle of yarn, string, ribbon, etc.)

Further reading

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

Italian

Noun

pompon m (invariable)

1. pompom, pompon

Middle French

Etymology 1

Variant of pepon, borrowed from Latin peponem, accusative singular of pep?.

Noun

pompon m (plural pompons)

1. melon
2. cucumber

Descendants

• ? Dutch: pompoen
  • Afrikaans: pampoen
  • ? Sranan Tongo: pampun
  • ? West Frisian: pompoen
• ? English: pompion, pumpkin
  • ? Welsh: pwmpen

Etymology 2

pompe +? -on.

Noun

pompon m (plural pompons)

1. decorative tassel

Romanian

Etymology

From French pompon.

Noun

pompon n (plural pompoane)

1. pompom

Declension