ornament

1. 1.

   make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

   “Decorate the room for the party”

   “beautify yourself for the special day”

   Synonymsdecorateadorngraceembellishbeautify

   Broaderchange

   Narrowerwreatheencrustbraidembroiderstickillustrategarlandfledgespanglefoliate
2. 2.

   be an ornament to

   “stars ornamented the Christmas tree”

   Broaderdeck

1. 1.

   something used to beautify

   Synonymsdecorationornamentation

   Broaderartifact

   Narroweradornmentarabesquearchitectural ornamentbeadingbowbrasscenterpieceChristmas treecockadedesign

Other forms of ornament

plural

ornaments·

past tense

ornamented·

present participle

ornamenting·

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 ornament

What does ornament mean?

ornament means "make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ornament?

ornament has 3 syllables: or-na-ment. The stress falls on "or". In IPA it is /ˈɔɹnəmənt/.

What is another word for ornament?

Close synonyms include decorate, adorn, grace, embellish, beautify. 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 ornament a common word?

ornament 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.