deco

1. 1.

   a style of design that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s; marked by stylized forms and geometric designs adapted to mass production

   Synonymsart deco

   Broaderartistic movement

Other forms of deco

plural

decoes·

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 deco

What does deco mean?

deco means "a style of design that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s; marked by stylized forms and geometric designs adapted to mass production".

How many syllables are in deco?

deco has 2 syllables: dec-o. The stress falls on "dec". In IPA it is /ˈdɛkoʊ/.

What is another word for deco?

Close synonyms include art deco. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is deco a common word?

deco 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.