ornament
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
biology
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English ornament, from Old French ornement, from Latin ornamentum (“equipment, apparatus, furniture, trappings, adornment, embellishment”), from ornāre (“to equip, adorn”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: ornaments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ornaments
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ornamenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ornamented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ornamented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Dust are our frames; and, gilded dust, our pride / Looks only for a moment whole and sound; / Like that long-buried body of the king / Found lying with his urns and ornaments, / Which at a touch of light, an air of heaven, / Slipt into ashes and was found no more.
I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use.
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
gloss: An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The articles used in church services.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
gloss: A characteristic that has a decorative function (typically in order to attract a mate)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To decorate.
pos: verb
examples: We will ornament the windows with trim to make the room seem brighter.
After this, perhaps, the next most imposing structure in Liverpool is the railway station; it is built of stone, richly ornamented with thirty-six columns of the Corinthian order.
gloss: To add to.
pos: verb
examples: The editor ornamented his plain writing, making it fancier but less clear.
Not a scene goes by that hasn't been ornamented with a split screen, a freeze frame, a caption, a voice-over, a switch between monochrome and colour, or a change of the aspect radio^([sic – meaning ratio]).
Related words: ornate
ornamentation
adorn
suborn
Derived words: block ornament
hood ornament
neither use nor ornament
ornamental
ornamental hermit
ornamentary
ornamentist
ornamentless
tooth ornament
ornamentor
overornament
reornament
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: zbukurim
lang: Antigua and Barbuda Creole English
word: atuulee
lang: Arabic
word: حِلْيَة
roman: ḥilya
lang: Armenian
word: զարդ
roman: zard
lang: Assamese
word: গহনা
roman: gohona
lang: Azerbaijani
word: naxış
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bəzək
lang: Bashkir
word: биҙәк
roman: biźək
lang: Bulgarian
word: орнамент
roman: ornament
lang: Catalan
word: ornament
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 裝飾品 /装饰品
roman: zhuāngshìpǐn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 裝飾 /装饰
roman: zhuāngshì
lang: Czech
word: ornament
lang: Czech
word: ozdoba
lang: Esperanto
word: ornamaĵo
lang: Finnish
word: koriste
lang: Finnish
word: koriste-esine
lang: Finnish
word: ornamentti
lang: French
word: ornement
lang: Galician
word: ornamento
lang: German
word: Verzierung
lang: Greek
word: διακόσμηση
roman: diakósmisi
lang: Hebrew
word: נוֹי
roman: noy
lang: Hebrew
word: עֲדִי
roman: adi
lang: Hindi
word: आभूषण
roman: ābhūṣaṇ
lang: Hindi
word: अलंकार
roman: alaṅkār
lang: Hindi
word: जेवर
roman: jevar
lang: Hungarian
word: dísz
lang: Hungarian
word: díszítés
lang: Ingrian
word: koristus
lang: Irish
word: ornáid
lang: Italian
word: ornamento
lang: Japanese
word: 装飾
roman: sōshoku
lang: Korean
word: 장신구
roman: jangsin'gu
lang: Latin
word: ornāmentum
lang: Macedonian
word: у́крас
roman: úkras
lang: Malayalam
word: ആഭരണം
roman: ābharaṇaṁ
lang: Malayalam
word: അലങ്കാരം
roman: alaṅkāraṁ
lang: Occitan
word: ornament
lang: Odia
word: ଅଳଙ୍କାର
roman: aḷaṅkāra
lang: Paicî
word: näwêê
lang: Pashto
word: ګاڼه
roman: gānna
lang: Pashto
word: کالي
roman: kāli
lang: Persian
word: آذین
roman: âzin
lang: Polish
word: ornament
lang: Portuguese
word: ornamento
lang: Portuguese
word: ornato
lang: Portuguese
word: enfeite
lang: Romanian
word: ornament
lang: Russian
word: орна́мент
roman: ornáment
lang: Russian
word: украше́ние
roman: ukrašénije
lang: Sanskrit
word: भूषण
roman: bhūṣaṇa
lang: Spanish
word: ornamento
lang: Telugu
word: ఆభరణము
roman: ābharaṇamu
lang: Telugu
word: భూషణము
roman: bhūṣaṇamu
lang: Tocharian B
word: tsaiññe
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بزك
roman: bezek
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: سوس
roman: süs
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: زینت
roman: zinet
lang: Ukrainian
word: прикра́са
roman: prykrása
lang: Ukrainian
word: оздо́ба
roman: ozdóba
lang: Ukrainian
word: орна́мент
roman: ornáment
lang: Yiddish
word: ציר
roman: tsir