Adorn
//əˈdɔɹn// adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 adornment obsolete
"Her brest all naked, as nett yvory Without adorne of gold or silver bright"
Verb
- 1 To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
"a man adorned with noble statuary and columns"
- 2 make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. wordnet
- 3 furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors wordnet
- 4 be beautiful to look at wordnet
Adjective
- 1 adorned; ornate obsolete
"And to realities yield all her shows: Made so adorn for thy delight the more"
Antonyms
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More examples"I like to adorn my room with flowers."
Etymology
From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin adōrnāre; from ad- + ōrnō (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old French aorner, from the same Latin source.
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