adornment

Other forms of adornment

plural

adornments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about adornment

What does adornment mean?

adornment means "a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in adornment?

adornment has 3 syllables: a-dorn-ment. The stress falls on "dorn". In IPA it is /əˈdɔɹnmənt/.

Is adornment a common word?

adornment is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.