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Definitions: Festoon |
FestoonNoun1. A curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful loops. 2. An embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work. 3. Flower chains suspended in loops between points. Verb1. Decorate with festoons; "The public buildings were festooned for the holiday". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "festoon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Sports & Leisure | A decorative chain, as of flowers or leaves, hanging typically in a curve between two points. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: FestoonSynonym: festoonery (n). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: festooning (mechanical engineeringeuropean union, sports & leisureindustry). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Curvature | Carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon, lunule, horseshoe, loop, crane neck; parabola, hyperbola; helix, spiral; catenary, festoon; conchoid, cardioid; caustic; tracery; arched ceiling, arched roof; bay window, bow window. |
Ornament | Wreath, festoon, garland, chaplet, flower, nosegay, bouquet, posy, "daisies pied and violets blue" |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Festoon |
| English words defined with "festoon": Festooned, Festooning. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Sea anemones festoon a rocky outcrop off Alaska.Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |  | Rinceau and festoon frieze featuring winged herm-like figure and medallion.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Festoon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Festoon" is used about 19 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) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
festoon | 13 |
cables festoon | 11 |
cable festoon | 8 |
festoon light | 6 |
festoon necklace | 6 |
festoon salon | 5 |
dryer festoon | 4 |
festoon system | 4 |
festoon lighting | 4 |
curtain festoon | 3 |
cable festoon shielded | 3 |
festoon light party | 3 |
bulb festoon | 2 |
festoon lamp | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "festoon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zbukuroj (adorn, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, bespangle, bespread, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, 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), zbukurim (adornment, beautifying, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, enrichment, fallal, finery, flower, garnish, garniture, glorification, inlay, marquetry, onlay, ornament, ornamentation, rosace, set off, titivation), girlanda. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حبل زهور, تزيين بالورود, زين بفساطين, الفسطون حبل من الزهور, باقة ورود. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | фестон (scallops, swag), гирлянда (swag, torse, wreath). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | girlanda (Garland). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | festonere. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | festoen, in slingers ophangen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ripustaa laskoksille. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | festonner, feston. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | girlande (garland, paper chain, streamer, wreath), feston (scallop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γιρλάντα (chaplet, garland, scallop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לקשט בזרים, תבליט זר, '"יל (fringe, strand, tassel, tuft), ציץ (blossom, diadem, ornament, petalon, sprout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | füzérdíszítés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | karangan bunga (bouquet, garland, lei, wreath). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | festone (garland, scallop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | girlander. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estoonfay festão (Garland, wreath). (various references) feston, ghirlandã (Garland, twist, wreath), împodobi cu ghirlande. (various references) фестон, гирлянда (gariand, garland, torse, wreath). (various references) feston. (various references) festonear (pink, scallop, scollop), festón (fringe tab, scallop, scollop). (various references) festong (scallop), festonera, pryda med girlander, pryda med festonger, girland (garland, wreath), bekransa (Garland, wreathe). (various references) พวงมาลัย, ประ"ับ"้วยพู่ห้อย. (various references) fisto, çiçeklerle süslemek, çiçek zinciri. (various references) фестон (scallop, scollop), гірлянда (chaplet, rosary, wreath), прикрашати гірляндами. (various references) tr ng hoa, chạm nổi ở đá. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "festoon": festooned, festooneries, festoonery, festooning, festoons. (additional references) | |
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"Festoon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estoon, fastoon, Fattoun, Felstein, Felstone, Festin, festoojn, festoond, festos, Festum, Fewston, Feystown, Fiston, fistoon, Gestuno. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "festoon" (pronounced fe'stuw"n) |
| 3 | -t uw" n | attune, cartoon, inopportune, opportune, platoon, pontoon, Toon, tune. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: eftsoon. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-n-o-o-s-t" | |
-1 letter: soften. | |
-2 letters: fonts, foots, noose, notes, often, onset, seton, snoot, steno, stone, tones, toons. | |
-3 letters: efts, eons, fens, fets, foes, fons, font, foot, nest, nets, noes, nose, note, ones, onto, oots, sent, snot, soft, sone, soon, soot, tens, toes, tone, tons, toon. | |
-4 letters: efs, eft, ens, eon, fen, fet, foe, fon, net, noo, nos. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-n-o-o-s-t" | |
+1 letter: eftsoons, festoons. | |
+2 letters: festooned, flowstone, footnotes, footstone. | |
+3 letters: afternoons, confiteors, festoonery, festooning, flowstones, footstones, forefronts, foretokens, forlornest, housefront, shorefront, storefront. | |
+4 letters: confections, confronters, femtosecond, foreshorten, forestation, fortepianos, frontolyses, housefronts, oceanfronts, pianofortes, profoundest, shorefronts, storefronts, teaspoonful, tenderfoots. | |
+5 letters: conformities, counterflows, counterfoils, deflorations, defoliations, deformations, entomofaunas, exfoliations, femtoseconds, festooneries, fetoproteins, fomentations, footlessness, footsoreness, foreshortens, forestations, perforations, reformations, teaspoonfuls, teaspoonsful, toploftiness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 73 74 6F 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . ... - --- --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01110011 01110100 01101111 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e s t o o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 0073 0074 006F 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40718586818180 |
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