Definitions for ornaments

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ornaments or·na·ment

Spelling: [noun awr-nuh-muh nt; verb

IPA: /noun ˈɔr nə mənt; verb ˈɔr nəˌmɛnt, -mənt/

Ornaments is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 705 anagrams from letters in ornaments (aemnnorst).

Definitions for ornaments

noun

1. an accessory, article, or detail used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part:
2. a system, category, or style of such objects or features; ornamentation:
3. any adornment or means of adornment.
4. a person or thing that adds to the credit or glory of a society, era, etc.
5. the act of adorning.
6. the state of being adorned.
7. mere outward display:
8. Chiefly Ecclesiastical. any accessory, adjunct, or equipment.
9. Music. a tone or group of tones applied as decoration to a principal melodic tone.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with ornaments; embellish:
2. to be an ornament to:

Origin of ornaments

1175-1225; Latin ornāmentum equipment, ornament, equivalent to ornā(re) to equip + -mentum -ment; replacing Middle English ornement Old French Latin, as above

Examples for ornaments

The fashion of its ornament and decoration was foreign to that adopted by the Moors of Granada.

Notch and ornament it handsomely with leaves and flowers of paste.

Cover the pie with a crust, notch and ornament it, and bake it well.

But this man must be secure that humility would be an ornament to him.

Few of the flowers merely meant for ornament are so ethereal as a potato.

And I was within an ace of becoming an ornament of the British peerage.

Silence is the ornament of your sex; and in silence, if there be not wisdom, there is safety.

At Jocelyn's Rock the stamp of age was upon every decoration, on every ornament.

McConnell soon followed, beaming like an ornament atop a Christmas tree.

It is your ornament, your grace, your seduction, your chant for courting.