Decorate

Definition: Decorate

Decorate

Verb

1. Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day".

2. Be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere".

3. Award a mark of honor, as a medal, to.

4. Provide with decoration; "dress the windows".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "decorate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Note: Decorate \Dec"o*rate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Decorated; present participle verb or noun Decorating.]. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Multilingual Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Decorate

Ornament

Verb: ornament, embellish, enrich, decorate, adorn, bead, beautify, adonize.

Crosswords: Decorate

He should have armed himself if he's gonna decorate his saloon with my friend (Unforgiven; writing credit: David Webb Peoples.)

Ok, I need two people with keen feminine sensibilities to decorate Steven's party so it's Jackie and Fez. (That '70s Show; writing credit: Stacia Raymond)

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Books

• Fresh Paint: Fun & Easy Ways to Decorate Your Home (The Fresh Paint Series) (reference)

• Tabletops: Easy, Practical, Beautiful Ways to Decorate the Table (reference)

• Textile Style: The Art of Using Antique and Exotic Fabrics to Decorate Your Home (reference)

• The Complete Book of Scarves: All You Need to Make, Decorate, Embellish, Tie & Wear (reference)

• Two-Hour Party Cakes: 30 Cakes to Decorate in Two Hours or Less (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Decorate By Design with Mary Cynthia: Floors, Walls and Texture Decorate by Design Decorating Course, vol.3 : Floors, Walls and Texture (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Seamen at Kaneohe Naval Air Station decorate the graves of their fellow sailors killed at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 / Official U.S. Navy photograph. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Business

To decorate an apartment to a minimum standard, each household will generally spend an average of approximately $7,260 to $8,460. For superior decorating materials, average cost will be as much as $24,000. For those buying a house, the costs can be even greater. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "decorate": decorate with ♦ decorate with flags. Additional references.

Ending with "decorate": art-decorate.

Albanian

dekoroj, zbukuroj (adorn, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, bespangle, bespread, color, colour, deck, dress, embellish, embroider, festoon, flatter, Flavor, flavour, garnish, gild the pill, glorify, inlay, intersperse, landscape, ornament, pink, prettify, set with, smarten up, stud, touch up, trap, trick out, trim, water down), stolis (adorn, array, bedizen, deck, dress, embellish, enchase, ornament, prank, tire, trap, trick up, trim), i jap medalje. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قلد وساما, ‏زخرف (adorn, bedeck, deck, do, embellish, embellishment, emboss, embroider, enrich, flourish, garnish, grace, illuminate, illustrate, lard, ornament, ornamentation, string, trace, trick, trick out, trick up, trim). (various references)

Bulgarian 

украсявам (adorn, array, color, colour, deck, dress, embellish, embroider, enchase, enrich, flatter, garnish, glorify, grace, lard, ornament, prank, set, titivate, trim), тапицирам (paper, upholster), награждавам (award, bestow, grace, recognize, reward), боядисвам (color, colour, dip, engrain, paint, wash). (various references)

Chinese 

裝飾 (decorative, ornamental), 装饰 (Adorn, Adorned, Adorning, Decking, decor, Decorated, Decorating, Decoration, Decorative, decoratively, Drape, Draped, Emblazon, Emblazoned, Emblazoning, Emboss, Embossed, Embossing, fringed, Fringing, Garnish, garnished, Garnishing, latticed, Latticing, ornamental, ornamentally, Ornamented, Ornamenting), 布置 (arrange, fix up). (various references)

Czech

vyznamenat (distinguish), vyzdobit (beautify, deck, furbelow, perk, prank, wreathe), vymalovat, tapetovat (hang wallpaper, wallpaper), ozdobit (adorn, embellish, garnish, trim), ozdoba (adornment, decoration, garnish, grace, ornament, topping, trim), okrášlit (adorn, beautify). (various references)

Dutch

versieren (adorn, ornament). (various references)

Esperanto

dekori (adorn, ornament), ornami (adorn, ornament). (various references)

Farsi 

پیراستن (Dress, Embellish, Trim), نشان یامدال دادن به , زینت کردن , اذین کردن , ارایش دادن (Able, Adorn, Beautify, Embellish, Garnish, Lard, Plume). (various references)

Finnish

somistaa (adorn, fix up, trim), koristella (deck, ornament), koristaa (adorn, garnish, trim). (various references)

French

parer (deck out), orner (deck, deck out), décorer (deck). (various references)

German

schmücken (adorn, adornment, array, attire, bedeck, blazon, drape, embellish, emblazon, gild, ornament, spangle, to adorn, to blazon, to decorate, to emblazon, to spangle, trim), verzieren (adorn, embellish, emblazon, fit out, garnish, ornament, ornamentation, to stud, trim), ausschmücken (embellish, embroider, garnish, ornament, ornamentation, to decorate), aufputzen (adorn, brush up, clean up, deck out, do up, dress up, ornament, polish up). (various references)

Greek 

διακοσμώ (blazon, deck, garnish). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקשט (adorn, deck, fringe, garnish, ornament, trick out, trick up, trim), לעטר (crown, embellish, illuminate, illustrate, ornament, trim), לענוד (bind, sport, wear), להדר (adorn, ornament). (various references)

Hungarian

díszít (adorn, attire, deck, embellish, enrich, garnish, ornament, ornate, to adorn, to braid, to deck, to decorate, to embellish, to emblazon, to embroider, to festoon, to garnish, to gimp, to grace, to inlay, to instar, to ornament, to primp, to set out, to spangle, to stud, to vandyke), fest (paint, to blazon, to decorate, to dip, to dye, to limn, to paint, to stain), ékesít (deck, to adorn, to deck, to ornament, to set out). (various references)

Indonesian

menghias (adorn, embellish, ornament), memajangi. (various references)

Irish

maisigh. (various references)

Italian

decorare (adorn, ornament), guarnire (dress, garnish, ornament, trim), adornare (adorn, array, deck, dress, emblazon, grace, ornament, prink). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

飾る (to adorn, to decorate, to ornament). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なると (maelstrom), つくりたてる (to adorn, to build up, to decorate, to dress up), かざりたてる (to deck out, to decorate gaudily), かざりつける (to decorate, to display), かざる (to adorn, to decorate, to ornament). (various references)

Korean 

꾸미십시요. (various references)

Manx

stowal (bestow, bestowal, confer, conferment, stow), jesheenaghey (adorn, adornment, bedeck, dress, embellish, emblazon, garnish, painting, painting trade, prank, preen, renovation, set, titivate). (various references)

Norwegian

dekorere. (various references)

Pig Latin

ecorateday.(various references)

Polish

ozdabiać (adorn, ornament). (various references)

Portuguese

ornamentar (adorn, apparel, bedek, diaper, garnish, lace, ornament, prank, primp), decorar (adorn, coffer, learn by heart, memorialize, memorize, ornament, pattern, scrimshaw), adornar (adorn, attire, bedeck, bejewel, blazon, fig, gild, grace, illuminate, lard, ornament, prank, purl, set). (various references)

Romanian

orna (adorn, deck, fit out, flag, flourish, garnish, ornament, trim), decora (adorn, drape, dress, garnish, ornament), împodobi (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, caparison, deck, deck out, drape, dress, embellish, encrust, feather, fig, fig out, fringe, garnish, gild, grace, hang with, ornament, pink, prank, robe, set, smarten up, trap, trim). (various references)

Russian 

украшать (adorn, beautify, bedeck, deck, decorating, embellish, garnish, gild, ornament, prettify, set off). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

dekorisati, ukrasiti (adorn, array, emblazon, enchase, garnish, illuminate, ornament, trim), prošarati (interlard, interleave, streak off). (various references)

Spanish

decorar (adorn, dress, hang, ornament), adornar (adorn, array, bedeck, doll up, embellish, embroider, festoon, garnish, garnishee, grace, hang, lard, ornament, set off, set out, titivate, trap, trim). (various references)

Swedish

smycka (adorn, array, bedeck, blazon, deck, garnish, grace, ornament, trim), pryda (adorn, array, bedeck, deck, drape, embellish, enrich, garnish, glorify, grace, ornament), dekorera (enrich, figure, ornament, trim). (various references)

Turkish

donatmak (arm, attire, bedeck, bedight, catch up, damask, deck out, equip, furnish, gird, invest, ornament, outfit, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, rig out, turn out), dekore etmek (tire), dekor olmak, süsleyip püslemek (bedizen, titivate), süslemek (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedight, caparison, crown, damask, deck out, dike, dizen, doll out, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, embroider, enamel, enrich, fancy up, fig out, figure, flourish, garnish, gild, gird, grace, interlard, lace, lard, ornament, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, scrimshaw, set, smarten, tart up, tire, titivate, trick out, trick up, trig out, trig up, trim, zing up, zip, zip up), boyamak (color, color-wash, colour, dye, engrain, imbrue, paint, polish, stain, wash), bezemek (adorn, bedeck, bedight, trick out, trick up). (various references)

Turkmen 

nagyюlamak (adorn, embellish), haюamlamak (adorn), bezemek, beslemek. (various references)

Ukrainian

оздоблювати (fettle, ornament, top off), обладнувати (apparel, equip), опоряджати (equip, trick), прикрашати (adorn, apparel, beautify, bedeck, bespread, brighten, caparison, color, colour, deck, dress, dress out, embellish, embroider, flatter, garnish, gloss over, grace, needle, ornament, ornamentalize, prettify, set forth, smug, sugar coat, trim, trim up, varnish), прибирати (bedeck, char, clean up, deck, do out, put away, rid, smarten, tidy), декорувати. (various references)

Welsh

addurno (adorn, bedeck, bedizen, ornament). (various references)

�u . . . tag. (various references)

circumlevisti, depinxit, distincta, distincte, distinctum, distinctus, distinguo, distinxerunt, distinxit, orna, ornabant, ornabatur, ornaberis, ornabit, ornanda, ornandam, ornandum, ornant, ornantes, ornare, ornaret, ornasti, ornat, ornata, ornatam, ornati, ornatis, ornato, ornatu, ornatum, ornaturum, ornatus, ornaverunt, ornavi, ornavit, ornent. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "decorate": decorated, decorates. (additional references)

Words ending with "decorate": overdecorate, redecorate. (additional references)

Words containing "decorate": overdecorated, overdecorates, redecorated, redecorates, undecorated. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Decorate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decerate, decoat, decora, Decrane, decreto, Demokraten, Deodato, Deogratia, dicitrato, dicurane, Duchrae, Ecotrade, vectorette. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: catered, cerated, cordate, created, ocreate, reacted, redcoat.

-2 letters: carted, cerate, coated, coatee, coater, crated, create, decare, derate, ecarte, ocreae, orated, recode, redact, redate, teared, teredo, traced.

-3 letters: acred, acted, actor, adore, arced, arete, cadet, cadre, cared, caret, carte, cater, cedar, ceder, cered, coder, cored, coted, crate, credo, creed, dater, decor, derat, deter, doter.

+1 letter: cocreated, corelated, decorated, decorates, overacted, relocated.

+2 letters: accoutered, ancestored, cofeatured, cooperated, correlated, decorative, desecrator, ectodermal, edulcorate, excoriated, forecasted, outcapered, outreached, overcasted, percolated, procreated, redecorate, retroacted.

+3 letters: categorised, categorized, centerboard, coatdresses, coldhearted, confederate, congregated, consecrated, considerate, contravened, contredanse, copartnered, counterbade, decarbonate, decelerator, decorticate, democratize, deprecation, deprecatory, depreciator, desecration, desecrators, directorate, edulcorated, edulcorates, operculated, outpreached, overeducate, overmatched, overreacted, reallocated, recontacted, redecorated, redecorates, redecorator, reeducation, undecorated, vociferated.