- the act of decorating
- anything used for decorating; ornament
- a medal, badge, or similar token of honor
Origin of decoration
Middle English decoracioun from Old French decoration from Medieval Latin decoratio
Holiday decorations brighten a table.
- An example of a decoration is putting a jack-o-lantern on a porch to show your love of Halloween.
- An example of a decoration is a medal awarded to a military officer.
The definition of a decoration is an item used to make a room or thing more beautiful, or a medal given as an awarding.
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noun
- The act, process, technique, or art of decorating.
- Something used to decorate, especially when put up temporarily to celebrate or call attention to a special occasion.
- An emblem of honor, such as a medal or badge.
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Noun
(plural decorations)
- The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
- That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
- Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.
Anagrams
- carotenoid, co-ordinate, coordinate, coördinate
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Sentence Examples
- The new decoration of the Premises contributed much to the magnificence of the spectacle.
- It is therefore probable that most if not all of the sculptural decoration of the Parthenon was the work of pupils of Pheidias, such as Alcamenes and Agoracritus, rather than his own.
- By this earl it was in great part rebuilt and fitted up in regard to decoration much as it now exists.
- No traces of the decoration of the pediments and metopes have been preserved.
- In the Paris Exhibition of 1900 surface decoration was the prominent feature of all the exhibits of table-glass.
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WORDS NEAR decoration IN THE DICTIONARY
- decoration
- decorated
- Decorated style
- decorates