Meaning

1 senses

  1. (obsolete)Adornment

Examples

58 sentences

  1. Man adorns the place, the place doesn't adorn the man.

    Не місце красить людину, а людину місце. — deniko

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  2. She adorned her dress with flowers.

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  3. They adorned the room with flowers.

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  4. The violets adorn my kitchen windows.

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  5. Who is adorned with old age?

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Origin

From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin adōrnāre; from ad- + ōrnō (“furnish, emb

From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin adōrnāre; from ad- + ōrnō (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old French aorner, from the same Latin source.

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Forms

plural: adorns
Singularadorn
Pluraladorns

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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
adoptiveadorableB1adorationadoreB2adrenalineC1adretadrift
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