# decoration
## English

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### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪʃən

### Noun

decoration (countable and uncountable, plural decorations)
* The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
* Any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment or ornamentation.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:decoration
** 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
** 1994, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Hippopotamus:At the very moment he cried out, David realised that what he had run into was only the Christmas tree. Disgusted with himself at such cowardice, he spat a needle from his mouth, stepped back from the tree and listened. There were no sounds of any movement upstairs: no shouts, no sleepy grumbles, only a gentle tinkle from the decorations as the tree had recovered from the collision.
* 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.
* (biochemistry, immunology) The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host
* (Hong Kong) Refurbishment; renovation

#### Derived terms

* decorational
* decorationist
* decoration worker
* immunodecoration
* interior decoration
* nondecoration
* overdecoration
* redecoration
* table decoration

#### Related terms

* decorate

#### Translations

Armenian: զարդ (hy) (zard)
Bashkir: биҙәк (biźək)
Bulgarian: украса (bg) f (ukrasa), украшение (bg) n (ukrašenie)
Catalan: decoració (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 裝飾品 / 装饰品 (zh) (zhuāngshìpǐn)
Czech: výzdoba (cs) f, ozdoba (cs) f
Danish: dekoration c, udsmykning c
Dutch: versiering (nl) f, decoratie (nl) f
Egyptian: (ẖkr)
Esperanto: ornamaĵo (eo)
Finnish: koriste (fi)
French: décoration (fr) f
German: Dekoration (de) f, Verschönerung (de) f
Greek: διακόσμηση (el) n (diakósmisi)
Hungarian: dísz (hu), díszítmény (hu), dekoráció (hu)
Ingrian: koristus
Irish: maisiúchán (ga) m
Italian: decorazione (it) f
Japanese: 装飾 (ja) (そうしょく, sōshoku), 飾り (ja) (かざり, kazari), デコレーション (ja) (dekorēshon)
Kazakh: әшекей (äşekei)
Macedonian: украс m (ukras)
Malay: hiasan (ms), dekorasi
Malayalam: അലങ്കാരം (ml) (alaṅkāraṁ)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: dekorasjon m, utsmykking m or f
Nynorsk: dekorasjon m, utsmykking f
Occitan: decoracion (oc) f
Ottoman Turkish: زینت (ziynet)
Polish: dekoracja (pl) f, ozdoba (pl) f
Portuguese: decoração (pt) f
Romanian: decorație (ro) f, ornament (ro) n, ornamentație (ro) f
Russian: украше́ние (ru) n (ukrašénije), декора́ция (ru) f (dekorácija)
Sanskrit: भूषण (sa) n (bhūṣaṇa)
Spanish: decoración (es) f
Swahili: pambo (sw)
Swedish: dekoration (sv) c
Tagalog: dayan, palamuti (tl)
Turkish: bezek (tr), süs (tr), ziynet (tr)
Ukrainian: прикра́са f (prykrása), оздо́ба (uk) f (ozdóba)
Urdu: سجاوٹ (sjāoṭ) :
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### References

* (etymology) “decoration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* coördinate, carotenoid, Coronatide, co-ordinate, coronadite, coordinate