Definitions for pendant

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pendant pend·ant

Spelling: [pen-duh nt]

IPA: /ˈpɛn dənt/

Pendant is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in pendant (adennpt).

Definitions for pendant

noun

1. a hanging ornament, as an earring or the main piece suspended from a necklace.
2. an ornament suspended from a roof, vault, or ceiling.
3. a hanging electrical lighting fixture; chandelier.
4. that by which something is suspended, as the ringed stem of a watch.
5. a match, parallel, companion, or counterpart.
6. Also, pennant. Nautical. a length of rope attached to a masthead, the end of a yardarm, etc., and having a block or thimble secured to its free end.

adjective

1. pendent.

Origin of pendant

1300-50; Middle English pendaunt Anglo-French; Middle French pendant, noun use of present participle of pendre to hang Vulgar Latin *pendere for Latin pendēre. See pend

Examples for pendant

The pendant at the end of her gold-chain necklace dangles over her cleavage like an arrow pointing downward.

A form of connection which has struts attached to a pendant post.

This action of Congress is a pendant to the Academy of Sciences.

It was made by society jewelers Garrard, who refashioned the gems from a pendant she was given by her husband, George VI.

It had a pendant that looked like a house, which to me signifies warmth and happiness.

You'd have to ask any one to the wedding who gave you a pendant like that.

Mr. Martin himself was no unworthy "pendant" to this portrait.

The pendant light is a flotilla of hot air balloons hand blown in glass.

One face of this pendant was covered with scratches in a vandyked pattern.

No one else will promise your milk won't turn yellow after receiving your pendant.