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English
Etymology
From adorn + -ment.
Pronunciation
Noun
adornment (countable and uncountable, plural adornments)
- A decoration; that which adorns.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:decoration
The draperies did little to keep out the light; rather, they were mainly there as adornment for the windows.
- The act of decorating.
Derived terms
Translations
a decoration; that which adorns
- Armenian: զարդ (hy) (zard)
- Bulgarian: украса (bg) (ukrasa), украшение (bg) (ukrašenie), декорация (bg) (dekoracija)
- Danish: udsmykning c
- Egyptian: (ẖkr)
- Esperanto: ornamaĵo (eo)
- French: parure (fr) f
- Galician: adorno (gl) m, aderezo (gl) m, adobío m
- German: Verzierung (de) f
- Guaraní: jeguaka
- Hungarian: dekoráció (hu), dísz (hu), díszítés (hu)
- Irish: maise f, maisiúchán (ga) m
- Macedonian: украс m (ukras)
- Maori: tuhi
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: utsmykning m or f, utsmykking m or f
- Nynorsk: utsmykking f
- Ottoman Turkish: زینت (ziynet)
- Paicî: näwêê
- Polish: ozdoba (pl) f, adornacja f (obsolete)
- Portuguese: adorno (pt) m
- Spanish: adorno (es) m, decoración (es) f
- Ukrainian: прикра́са f (prykrása), оздо́ба (uk) f (ozdóba)
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