Decoration
[dekə'reɪʃ(ə)n] or [,dɛkə'reʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive).
(noun.) something used to beautify.
(noun.) an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event.
Typist: Preston--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
(n.) That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
(n.) 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.
Edited by Jessica
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Ornament, embellishment.
Typist: Penelope
Examples
- Mr. Bucket prices that decoration in his mind and thinks it as likely as not that Volumnia is writing poetry. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Not only were the cities outwardly more splendidly built, but within the homes of the wealthy there had been great advances in the art of decoration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The next day, for the first time, nothing was done towards the decoration of the door. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Then they sent to Reid my decoration, and they tried to put a sash on me, but I could not stand for that. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They conform to the general design and decoration of the table. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Mr. Herter was doing the decoration, and it was extraordinarily fine. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Nearly everywhere that Neolithic culture went, there went a disposition to associate the sun and the serpent in decoration and worship. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She wore no other decoration. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Viewed as work, this decoration was slow to do, and dirty to deal with. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In its complete absence of decoration, save for the big, blue stove, it was cosy and pleasant. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Fine building and decoration went on. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But what do you want them for, for decoration, or to send away, or what? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The bills, as a variety in the funeral procession, almost amounted to a decoration. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The expert architect and the two artists who assisted Tycho are delineated in the landscape and even in the setting sun in the top-most part of the painting, and in the decoration above. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Did you ever get the decorations? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- For decorations already painted it suffices to apply it to the back and wooden frames. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Dejah Thoris and I then fell to examining the architecture and decorations of the beautiful chambers of the building we were occupying. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The veins of this leaf in the decorations over your head, were his finger-joints, a hundred and fifty years ago. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I shan't venture to say anything at all about it, seeing that I never heard the story,' observed the owner of the Mosaic decorations. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Among his other contradictory decorations he had the hat of a bishop and the little gloves of a baby. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Believe me, I got to work for my decorations. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Not to mention decorations and kissing on both cheeks, he thought. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- A large cabinet contains awards, decorations, and medals presented to Edison, accumulating in the course of a long career, some of which may be seen in the illustration opposite. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The late repairs and decorations add both to the comeliness and the comfort of the Coliseum. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typist: Montague