garland

1. 1.

   adorn with bands of flowers or leaves

   “They garlanded the statue”

   Broaderdecorate

Other forms of garland

plural

garlands·

past tense

garlanded·

present participle

garlanding·

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 garland

What does garland mean?

garland means "United States singer and film actress (1922-1969)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in garland?

garland has 2 syllables: gar-land. The stress falls on "gar". In IPA it is /ˈɡɑɹlənd/.

What is another word for garland?

Close synonyms include Judy Garland, florilegium, miscellany, wreath, coronal. 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 garland a common word?

garland is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.