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Definition: Ornament |
OrnamentNoun1. Something used to beautify. Verb1. Make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ornament" was first used: 12th century. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | If you wear ornaments in dreams, you will have a flattering honor conferred upon you. If you receive them, you will be fortunate in undertakings. Giving them away, denotes recklessness and lavish extravagance. Losing an ornament, brings the loss either of a lover, or a good situation. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In music ornaments are musical flourishes that are not necessary to the overall melodic (or harmonic) line, but serve to decorate or "ornament" that line. Such ornamentation can be very elaborate (it was often so in the Baroque period) or relatively simple.In the baroque period, it was common for performers to improvise ornamentation on a given melodic line. A singer performing a da capo aria, for instance, would sing the melody relatively unornamented the first time, but decorate it with additional flourishes the second time.
Ornamentation may also be indicated by the composer. A number of standard ornaments (described below) are indicated with standard symbols in music notation, while other ornamentations may be appended to the staff in small notes, or simply written normally.
Trill
A rapid alternation between an indicated note and the one above, usually indicated by the letter tr written above the staff. The trill is also known as the shake. See trill for more details.
Mordent
The mordent is thought of as a rapid single alteration between an indicated note, the note above (in the case of the upper mordent) or below (in the case of the lower or inverted mordent) the indicated note, and the indicated note again.The upper mordent is indicated by a short squiggle; the lower mordent is the same with a short vertical line through it:
As with the trill, the exact speed with which the mordent is performed will vary according to the tempo of the piece, but at moderate tempi the above might be executed as follows:
It should be noted that in the Baroque period, a Mordant (the German equivalent of mordent) was what later came to be called an inverted mordent and what is now often called a lower mordent. In the 19th century, however, the name mordent was generally applied to what is now called the upper mordent. This confusion over the meaning of the unadorned word mordent is what has led to the modern terms upper and lower mordent being used rather than mordent and inverted mordent.
Although mordents are now thought of as just a single alteration between notes, in the Baroque period it appears that a Mordant may sometimes have been executed with more than one alteration between the indicated note and the note below, making it a sort of inverted trill.
Turn
A short figure consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the note below the one indicated, and the note itself again. It is indicated by a mirrored S-shape lying on its side above the staff. An inverted turn (the note below the one indicated, the note itself, the note above it, and the note itself again) is usually indicated by putting a short vertical line through the normal turn sign, though sometimes the sign itself is turned upsidedown.If the turn symbol is placed directly above a note, it is performed exactly as outlined above. If it is placed between two notes, however, the note before the symbol is played, then the turn, and then the following note. So the following turns:
might be executed like this:
The exact speed at which the notes of a turn are played can vary, as can its rhythm. The question of how a turn is best executed is largely one of context, convention and taste.
Acciaccatura
Meaning "crushed in" in Italian, it designates a note which should be played on the beat, and as quickly as possible. It is theoretically timeless.The acciaccatura is written as a note of smaller size, with a diagonal bar through the stem:
The exact interpreation of this will vary according to the tempo of the piece, but the following is possible:
Some pianists play both the acciaccatura and the main note simultaneously, releasing the grace note immediately.
The term "grace note" is sometimes used to mean specifically an acciaccatura. However, some people distinguish between the two by saying that an acciaccatura is played on the beat, while a true grace note is played slightly before the beat. Both are notated in the same way, and knowing when to play the note is largely a matter of style, although sometimes a grace note will be notated in the bar preceeding the note to which it is attached, showing it is to be played before the beat.
Appoggiatura
From the Italian word appoggiare, "to lean". The appoggiatura is important melodically and receives half the time value of the note it precedes.The appoggiatura is written as a note of smaller size, like the acciaccatura but without the bar:
This would be executed as follows:
Musicians' mnemonic: the appoggiatura is longer than the acciaccatura because it is podgy.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ornament."
Synonyms: OrnamentSynonyms: decoration (n), ornamentation (n), adorn (v), beautify (v), decorate (v), embellish (v), grace (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ornament | Verb: ornament, embellish, enrich, decorate, adorn, bead, beautify, adonize. |
Noun: ornament, ornamentation, ornamental art; ornature, ornateness; adornment, decoration, embellishment; architecture; jewelry; a. | |
Finery, frippery, gewgaw, gimcrack, tinsel, spangle, clinquant, pinchbeck, paste; excess of ornament; (vulgarity); gaud, pride. | |
Verb: ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge; smell of the lamp. | |
Noun: ornament; floridness c. Adjective: turgidity, turgescence; altiloquence; Adjective: declamation, teratology; well-rounded periods; elegance; orotundity. | |
Adjective: ornament; Verb: beautified; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent; sesquipedal, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming. | |
Repute | Chief; (master); first fiddle; (proficient); cynosure, mirror; flower, pink, pearl; paragon; (perfection); choice and master spirits of the age; elite; star,.sun, constellation, galaxy. ornament, honor, feather in one's cap, halo, aureole, nimbus; halo of glory, blaze of glory, blushing honors; laurels; (trophy). |
Simplicity | Unaffected; ingenuous, sincere (artless); free from affectation, free from ornament; simplex munditiis; sans facon, en deshabille. |
Vulgarity | Gaudiness, tawdriness; false ornament; finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant; baroque, rococo. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ornament |
| English words defined with "ornament": hood ornament. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ornament": Adah, Addi, Adiel ♦ COMPO CASTER ♦ Fair Play is a Jewel, Florid Architecture ♦ Himalayan spruce ♦ Indian spruce ♦ Jehoaddan ♦ Key ♦ ornamenter, hand ♦ parapet wall ♦ Sandschaki ♦ tail, tiger's-eye, trinkets ♦ Zina. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ornament": Tiffany. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ornament" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (decoration), Czech (chimney piece, chimneypiece, decoration, folderol, herringbone, ornament), Dutch (adornment, ornament), French (adornment, decoration, ornament), German (decoration, grace, ornament), Romanian (adornment, boss, ornament), Serbo-Croatian (ornament), Swedish (ornament, ornamentation, ornaments). |
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Screenplays | I don't know why he wanted me for a hood ornament. (Dead to Rights; writing credit: Flint Dille; Andre Emerson) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hood Ornament (1979) | |
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 | Interior, detail of south wall. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, August 1970. (Reproduction Number: HABS TENN,19-NASH,13-7) The interior columns, moldings, and illusionistic fresco ornament shown here along the south wall of Nashville’s First Presbyterian Church are in the Egyptian Revival style, an exotic style of architecture that became popular in the first half of the nineteenth century following Napoleon’s conquests. The Egyptian Revival style is noted for its lotus-leaf-inspired capitals, bulging columns, and Egyptian gorges, the dramatically curved cornice topping many Egyptian buildings. Begun in 1849 by William Strickland, the architect of the Tennessee State Capitol, this is the largest and best-preserved Egyptian Revival church in the United States. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Front (east) portico. Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, November 1959. (Reproduction Number: HABS, VT, 14-WOOD,1-4) Job Lyman, a young lawyer from Northampton, Massachusetts, finished this house in the village of Woodstock in 1810. He and his bride, Mary Hall, lived in it for many years while Job practiced law in town. The finely carved Neoclassical detailing on the entrance porch suggests Lyman's refined taste and the prosperity of Woodstock at the time of construction. Decorated with fluted Ionic columns and scrolled ornament, the porch also features steps made of granite from a nearby quarry. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Church of Elijah the Prophet (1647-50), interior, west gallery, view south, with ceramic ornament and frescoes (1715-16), Yaroslavl', Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |  | Henry Inman with walking stick, half-length portrait, facing three-quarters to the right, seated, with a book on a small table covered with a tablecloth showing lyre ornament. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Garden ornament, West Newton, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Duck ornament" by Carlos Gustavo Curado Commentary: "Ornament with 5 ducks with a stone over the biggest one." | "Tree Ornament" by Kevin Rohr Commentary: "Santa on his knees." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. |
C. Simmons | Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide. |
Edmund Burke | Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. |
Johann W. Von Goethe | The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people are satisfied with ornament. |
Joseph Addison | Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. |
Martin Luther | The hair is the richest ornament of women. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. |
Thomson | Loveliness needs not the aid of foreign ornament, but is, when unadorned, adorned the most. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | I am resolved to have some in an ornament for the head |
The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea. |
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Economic History | New Zealand | Designs may be registered to obtain protection for the shape, configuration, pattern, or ornament applied to articles by an industrial process or means. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was. This tendency is most observable in the female of the species, in whom the ancestral sense is strong and persistent. The tailed men described by Lord Monboddo are now generally regarded as a product of an imagination unusually susceptible to influences generated in the golden age of our pithecan past. |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | This great work is likewise an ornament and an honor to the nation. |
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| "Ornament" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.97% of the time. "Ornament" is used about 264 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.97% | 256 | 18,500 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.65% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.38% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 264 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "ornament". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Adlai | N/A | Biblical | My ornament |
| Adullam | N/A | Biblical | Their ornament |
| Anak | N/A | Biblical | Ornament |
| Corinth | N/A | Biblical | Ornament |
| Noadiah | N/A | Biblical | Ornament |
| Paran | N/A | Biblical | Ornament |
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Expressions using "ornament": architectural ornament ♦ be an ornament to ♦ head ornament ♦ hood ornament ♦ jewelled ornament ♦ runiform ornament ♦ the honeysuckle ornament ♦ Tooth ornament. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "ornament"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | sieraad (adornment, decoration). (various references) | |
Albanian | zbukuroj (adorn, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, bespangle, bespread, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, festoon, flatter, Flavor, flavour, garnish, gild the pill, glorify, inlay, intersperse, landscape, pink, prettify, set with, smarten up, stud, touch up, trap, trick out, trim, water down), zbukurim (adornment, beautifying, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, enrichment, fallal, festoon, finery, flower, garnish, garniture, glorification, inlay, marquetry, onlay, ornamentation, rosace, set off, titivation), stolli, stolis (adorn, array, bedizen, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, enchase, prank, tire, trap, trick up, trim). (various references) | |
Arabic | حلية (decoration, finery, jewel, ornamentation, trinket), تزيين (adornment, decoration, embellishment, garland, ornamentation, tooling), زينة (adornment, embellishment, garnish, gaud, pompon, topping, trimming), زين (apparel, bedeck, deck, dress, enhance, figure, gem, grace, hang, invest, paint, pattern, pipe, plate, prettify, prink, smarten, trick, trim, varnish), زخرفة (adornment, blazonry, decor, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, enrichment, fussiness, garniture, illustration, ornamentation, ornateness, scenery, scroll), زخرف (adorn, bedeck, deck, decorate, do, embellish, embellishment, emboss, embroider, enrich, flourish, garnish, grace, illuminate, illustrate, lard, ornamentation, string, trace, trick, trick out, trick up, trim), جمل (beautify, bedeck, camel, conclude, embellish, enhance, finalize, garnish, improve, outline, precis, prettify, pretty, refine, smarten, sum up, summarize, totalize, varnish), المفخرة (boast, brag), الزخرف. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | украсявам (adorn, array, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, enchase, enrich, flatter, garnish, glorify, grace, lard, prank, set, titivate, trim), украса (adornment, decking, decoration, dressing, embellishment, embroidery, flower, fretwork, gilding, set off, trappings), украшение (adornment, bibelot, decoration, fallal, figuration, garnish, garniture, knick knack, ornamentation, set off, trimming), разкрасявам (beautify, dress up, embellish, embroider, furbish, gild, prettify, pretty), орнамент, декорация (ornamentation), декорирам (adorn, invest). (various references) | |
Chinese | 裝飾物 (ornamentation), 装饰品, 鋃 (chain). (various references) | |
Czech | ozdoba (adornment, decorate, decoration, garnish, grace, topping, trim), ornament (chimney piece, chimneypiece, decoration, folderol, herringbone), okrasa (adornment, decoration, trappings), zdobit (grace), krášlit, dekorace (decoration, scenery). (various references) | |
Danish | dekoration (adornment, decor, decoration). (various references) | |
Dutch | versieren (adorn, decorate). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ornamo, ornami (adorn, decorate), ornamaĵo (adornment, decoration), dekori (adorn, decorate). (various references) | |
Finnish | koru (pendant, trinket), koristus (adornment, decoration, finery), koristella (deck, decorate), koriste (trimming, trinket). (various references) | |
French | orner, ornement, décorer. (various references) | |
German | Verzierung (adornment, decoration, embellishment, flourish, garnish, garnishment, grace, ornamentation), Zierde (adornment, decoration, honor, virtue), verzieren (adorn, decorate, embellish, emblazon, fit out, garnish, ornamentation, to stud, trim). (various references) | |
Greek | κόσμημα (adornment, bijou, flourish, gem, jewel), κοσμώ (adorn, decorate, grace), στολίζω (adorn, array, attire, beautify, bespangle, caparison, deck, decorate, doll, doll up, embellish, garnish, perk, prank, prim, primp, prink, titivate, tog, trim), στολίδι (adornment, bijou, gaud, jewel, tog), διακοσμητικό. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תקשיט (decor), צעצוע (knicknack, plaything, toy), ציץ (blossom, diadem, festoon, petalon, sprout), חלי (necklace), עטור (adorned, coronation, crowned, crowning, embellished, embellishment, garnished, illustration, medal, ornamented), עטור נוי (decoration), עדי (jewel), נוי (beauty, decoration), תכשיט (adornment, decoration, jewel), משכית (figure, image, imagination, mosaic), לצעצע (adorn, embellish), להדר (adorn, decorate), לזין (adorn, arm, lie with a woman), לעטר (crown, decorate, embellish, illuminate, illustrate, trim), לפאר (adorn, beautify, embellish, glorify), לקשט (adorn, deck, decorate, fringe, garnish, trick out, trick up, trim), לשבץ (checker, embed, embroider, fix in, inlay, insert), קשוט (adornment, decoration, Garland, garnish, jewel, ornamentation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | díszítmény (decoration, garnish), díszítés (adornment, décor, decoration, embellishment, enrichment, fancywork, fantasy, ornamentation, piping), dísz (decoration, fallals, gaiety, honor, honorary, parade, state, trappings, trimming), dísztárgy (knick-knack, knick-knackery, pendant, pendent), ékesség. (various references) | |
Indonesian | perhiasan (array, embellishment, ornamentation), menghias (adorn, decorate, embellish). (various references) | |
Italian | ornamento (adornment, decoration, scenery), decorare (adorn, decorate). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 装飾 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おきもの (figurehead, object placed in tokonoma), そうしょくひん (decoration), そうしょく (herbivorous, priesthood), かざりもの (decoration, figurehead), かべかけ, オーナメント , はながた (floral pattern, flourish, star actor). (various references) | |
Korean | 장신구. (various references) | |
Manx | ornaid, jesheeney, jesheen (adornment, trinket). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ornamentay.(various references) | |
Polish | ozdabiać (adorn, decorate). (various references) | |
Portuguese | ornato (embellishment, offset), ornar (accoutre, attire, foil, primp), ornamento (adornment, boss, finery, flower, pretty, set-off), ornamentar (adorn, apparel, bedek, decorate, diaper, garnish, lace, prank, primp), ornamentação (decoration, fretwork, ornamentation, trimming), enfeite (anklet, broidery, caparison, decking, dressing, embellishment, finery, garnish, garniture, gilding, offset, ornamentation, pretty, trimming), enfeitar (apparel, bejewel, caparison, deck, embellish, frill, garnish, groom, perk, prank, prettify, primp, set out, sugar-coat, titivate, tog oneself up), embelezar (accoutre, aggrandize, beautify, deck, dress, embellish, embroider, flatter, garnish, glorify, grace, perk, prettify, sugar-coat), decorar (adorn, coffer, decorate, learn by heart, memorialize, memorize, pattern, scrimshaw), decoração (adornment, décor, decking, decoration, gilding, ornamentation, set, trappings), adorno (adornment, attire, braid, embroidery, facing, finery, finesse, garniture, set-off, tire), adornar (adorn, attire, bedeck, bejewel, blazon, decorate, fig, gild, grace, illuminate, lard, prank, purl, set). (various references) | |
Romanian | orna (adorn, deck, decorate, fit out, flag, flourish, garnish, trim), împodobi (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, caparison, deck, deck out, decorate, drape, dress, embellish, encrust, feather, fig, fig out, fringe, garnish, gild, grace, hang with, pink, prank, robe, set, smarten up, trap, trim). (various references) | |
Russian | украшение (adorner, adornment, beautification, decoration, embellishment, fallal, fal-lal, garnish, knick knack, molding, moulding, ornamentation, prettification, set off, trim), украшать орнамент, украшать (adorn, beautify, bedeck, deck, decorate, decorating, embellish, garnish, gild, prettify, set off), орнамент (dйcor, tracery). (various references) | |
Scottish | usgar (a jewel, bell on liquor, jewel), sgèimh (beauty, comeliness), maise (beauty, comeliness, decoration). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ornament, okititi (bedeck), ukrasiti (adorn, array, decorate, emblazon, enchase, garnish, illuminate, trim), ukras (adornment, decoration, fallal, flourish, garnish), ukrašavanje (decoration, ornamentation), nakit (jewel, jewellery, jewelry, trinket). (various references) | |
Spanish | alhaja (adornment, decoration, jewel, pip), ornamento, decorar (adorn, decorate, dress, hang). (various references) | |
Swedish | smycke (jewel, jewellery, jewelry, trinket), sira, prydnad (adornment, decking, decoration), dekoration (decoration, trimmings). (various references) | |
Thai | เครื่องประดับ, ประดับ (embellish, enrich, garnish). (various references) | |
Turkish | takı (affix, ending, formative, garniture, jewelery, ornamentation, particle, postposition, trappings), süslemek (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedight, caparison, crown, damask, deck out, decorate, 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, 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), süsleme (adornment, décor, decoration, embellishment, enrichment, figuration, grace, grace note, ornamentation, trim, trimming), süs (adornment, apparel, attire, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, encrustation, enrichment, facings, falbala, falbelo, fancy, finery, flamboyance, flourish, flower, frill, frippery, garnish, garnishment, garniture, get up, make up, ornamental, ornamentation, scrimshaw, setoff, setout, trim, trimming), gurur kaynağı, donatmak (arm, attire, bedeck, bedight, catch up, damask, deck out, decorate, equip, furnish, gird, invest, outfit, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, rig out, turn out), aksesuar (accessaries, accessary, accessories, accessory, attachment, fixings, trimming), övünç kaynağı (boast, pride). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gьl (flower, rose). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | церковне облачення (chasuble), церковне начиння (chapel), гордість (crest, pride), орнаментувати (ornamentalize), орнаментика, орнамент (dйcor, dressing, outset), окраса, оздоба (garnish), оздоблювати (decorate, fettle, top off), прикраса мелодії, прикраса (adornment, apparel, attire, beauty, bijou, decking, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, fallal, garnish, garniture, Nick nack, outset, pretty, quip, set off), прикрашати (adorn, apparel, beautify, bedeck, bespread, brighten, caparison, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, dress out, embellish, embroider, flatter, garnish, gloss over, grace, needle, ornamentalize, prettify, set forth, smug, sugar coat, trim, trim up, varnish), прикрашання (beautification, dressing, embellishment, enrichment, ornamentation, paint, trimming). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | đồ trang trí (adornment, garniture), đồ trang sức (garniture, tire), đồ trang hoàng. (various references) | |
Welsh | addurno (adorn, bedeck, bedizen, decorate), addurniad (adornment), addurn (adornment). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | me-te, ul. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | decus, mundi, mundis, mundo, mundos, mundum, mundus, ornamenta, ornamenti, ornamentis, ornamento, ornamentum, ornatus. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | hyrst. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 12 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Inauris aurea et margaritum fulgens qui arguit sapientem et aurem oboedientem |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | A goldene erering, and a margarite shynende, that vndernemeth a wis man, and an ere obedient. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | As an ear-ring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Like a nose-ring of gold and an ornament of the best gold, is a wise man who says sharp words to an ear ready to give attention. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 25, Verse 12 |
| Cebuano | Maingon sa usa ka ariyos nga bulawan, ug sa usa ka dayandayan sa fino nga bulawan, Ingon man ang usa ka manggialamon nga magbabadlong ibabaw sa usa ka masinugtanon nga igdulungog. |
| Croatian | Mudrac koji kori uhu je poslušnu zlatan prsten i ogrlica od tanka zlata. |
| Danish | En Guldring, et gyldent Smykke er revsende Vismand for lyttende Øre. |
| Dutch | Een wijs bestraffer bij een horend oor, is een gouden oorsiersel, en een halssieraad van het fijnste goud. |
| Finnish | Kultainen korvarengas ja hienokultainen kaulakoru ovat viisas neuvoja ynnä kuuleva korva. |
| French | Comme un anneau d`or et une parure d`or fin, Ainsi pour une oreille docile est le sage qui réprimande. |
| German | Wer einem Weisen gehorcht, der ihn straft, das ist wie ein goldenes Stirnband und goldenes Halsband. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Teguran orang arif kepada orang yang mau mendengarnya, seperti cincin emas atau perhiasan kencana. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Seperti anting-anting keemasan berpatutan dengan kalung yang dari pada emas sepuluh matu, demikianpun telinga yang suka mendengar itu berpatutan dengan penegur yang berbudi. |
| Italian | Come anello d'oro e collana d'oro fino è un saggio che ammonisce un orecchio attento. |
| Maori | He pera i te whakakai koura, i te whakapaipai koura parakore koia ano te ako a te whakaaro nui ki te taringa rongo. |
| Norwegian | Som en ring av gull, som et smykke av fint gull er en vismann som taler refsende ord for et hørende øre. |
| Portuguese | Como pendentes de ouro e gargantilhas de ouro puro, assim é o sábio repreensor para o ouvido obediente. |
| Rumanian | Ca o verigq de aur wi o podoabq de aur curat, awa este knyeleptul care mustrq, pentru o ureche ascultqtoare. - |
| Russian | ъПМПФБС УЕТШЗБ Й ХЛТБЫЕОЙЕ ЙЪ ЮЙУФПЗП ЪПМПФБ--НХДТЩК ПВМЙЮЙФЕМШ ДМС ЧОЙНБФЕМШОПЗП ХИБ. |
| Swedish | Såsom en gyllene örring passar till ett bröstspänne av fint guld, så passar en vis bestraffare till ett hörsamt öra. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ornament": ornamental, ornamentally, ornamentals, ornamentation, ornamentations, ornamented, ornamenting, ornaments. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "ornament": overornament. (additional references) | |
Words containing "ornament": aggiornamento, aggiornamentos, overornamented, overornamenting, overornaments, unornamented. (additional references) | |
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"Ornament" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Erbamont, Oreamuno, ornamenta, ornement, ornmanet, ournament, portamenti, tornament. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ornament" (pronounced ô"rnumunt) |
| 7 | -r n u m u n t | tournament. |
| 6 | -n u m u n t | accompaniment, tenement. |
| 5 | -u m u n t | argument, armament, adamant, complement, condiment, impediment, implement, detriment, disarmament, element, excrement, experiment, filament, increment, instrument, integument, ligament, orpiment, parliament, predicament, rearmament, regiment, rudiment, sacrament, sediment, sentiment, supplement, temperament, testament, vehement. |
| 4 | -m u n t | aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, amendment, amusement, announcement, annulment, antigovernment, apartment, appeasement, appointment, apportionment, arraignment, arrangement, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adjournment, adjustment, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, bemusement, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, claimant, Clement, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, comportment, concealment, confinement, consignment, containment, contentment, copayment, curtailment, impairment, impeachment, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, debarment, debasement, deferment, department, deployment, deportment, derailment, detachment, determent, development, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, displacement, divestment, dormant, easement, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, excitement, extinguishment, figment, formant, fragment, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, government, harassment, incitement, inclement, indictment, inducement, informant, infotainment, infringement, installment, internment, intersegment, investment, involvement, judgement, judgment, maltreatment, management, measurement, micromanagement, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, movement, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nourishment, ointment, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, parchment, pavement, payment, pigment, placement, postponement, postretirement, prejudgment, prepayment, presentment, procurement, pronouncement, punishment, puzzlement, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recruitment, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refurbishment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, repayment, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, restatement, retirement, retrenchment, segment, settlement, shipment, statement, treatment, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, wonderment. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, ambient, ambivalent, ancient, antecedent, antidepressant, antioxidant, apparent, applicant, ardent, argent, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, adherent, adjacent, adjutant, adolescent, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assistant, astringent, attendant, belligerent, beneficent, benevolent, blatant, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, clairvoyant, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, compliant, component, concomitant, concurrent, confident, confluent, consequent, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, contaminant, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impatient, impertinent, important, impotent, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, dependent, depressant, descendant, descendent, despondent, detergent, determinant, deterrent, deviant, different, diligent, discordant, disinfectant, disobedient, dispersant, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, docent, dominant, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, elephant, eloquent, emergent, emigrant, eminent, entrant, equivalent, errant, esculent, evanescent, evident, excellent, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, exponent, extant, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, gallant, giant, grandiloquent, grandparent, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, incumbent, indecent, independent, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, indulgent, inefficient, infant, infrequent, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, instant, insufficient, insurgent, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, merchant, migrant, militant, miscreant, monovalent, mordant, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nonresident, nonviolent, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, outpatient, overconfident, oxidant, pageant, parent, participant, patent, patient, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, piquant, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prescient, present, prevalent, proficient, prominent, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, pursuant, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, reagent, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recurrent, redundant, refrigerant, Regent, registrant, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repellent, repentant, repugnant, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, reverent, rodent, ruminant, salient, seafront, sealant, semipermanent, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, tenant, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-n-n-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: moneran, montane, nonmeat, remnant, tonearm. | |
-2 letters: atoner, enamor, manner, marten, matron, mentor, moaner, natron, nonart, omenta, ornate, tanner, tonner. | |
-3 letters: ament, amort, anent, antre, armet, atone, enorm, manor, mater, meant, menta, metro, monte, morae, namer, nomen, nonet, noter, oaten, oater, orate, ramen, ramet, reman, roman, tamer, tenon, tenor, toman, toner, tonne, trona, trone. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-n-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: adornment, magnetron, nanometer, nonmarket, ornaments. | |
+2 letters: adornments, antimodern, attornment, counterman, enantiomer, magnetrons, monstrance, nanometers, nonthermal, numeration, ordainment, ornamental, ornamented, renominate, tournament, tramontane. | |
+3 letters: adjournment, aminopterin, antimoderns, attornments, centimorgan, countermand, denominator, enamoration, enantiomers, enumeration, germination, inseminator, mensuration, monstrances, mountaineer, necromantic, nitrosamine, nomenclator, nonargument, nonmaterial, nonmetrical, nonmonetary, nontemporal, nonterminal, numerations, ordainments, ornamentals, ornamenting, predominant, prenominate, reanimation, recombinant, remonstrant, renominated, renominates, termination, tournaments, tramontanes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Names: Derived from 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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