pendant

1. 1.

   held from above and hanging down

   “a pendant bunch of grapes”

   Synonymspendentdependent

   Similarsupported

Other forms of pendant

plural

pendants·

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 pendant

What does pendant mean?

pendant means "an adornment that hangs from a piece of jewelry (necklace or earring)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pendant?

pendant has 2 syllables: pen-dant. The stress falls on "pen". In IPA it is /ˈpɛndənt/.

What is another word for pendant?

Close synonyms include pendent, chandelier, pendent, pendent, dependent. 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 pendant a common word?

pendant 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.

What rhymes with pendant?

3 words rhyme with pendant. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.