adorn

[a·dorn]

To adorn is to dress something up by decorating it. You might adorn your poncho with fringe or your poodle's dog collar with rhinestones.

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To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

Verb
make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day"

Verb
furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors

Verb
be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"

v. t.
To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

n.
Adornment.

a.
Adorned; decorated.

Adorn

A*dorn" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Adorned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Adorning.] [OE. aournen, anournen, adornen, OF. aorner, fr. L. aaornare; ad + ornare to furnish, embellish. See Adore, Ornate.] To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place.

Syn. -- To deck; decorate; embellish; ornament; beautify; grace; dignify; exalt; honor. -- To Adorn, Ornament, Decorate, Embellish. We decorate and ornament by putting on some adjunct which is attractive or beautiful, and which serves to heighten the general effect. Thus, a lady's head-dress may be ornament or decorated with flowers or jewelry; a hall may be decorated or ornament with carving or gilding, with wreaths of flowers, or with hangings. Ornament is used in a wider sense than decorate. To embellish is to beautify or ornament richly, not so much by mere additions or details as by modifying the thing itself as a whole. It sometimes means gaudy and artificial decoration. We embellish a book with rich engravings; a style is embellished with rich and beautiful imagery; a shopkeeper embellishes his front window to attract attention. Adorn is sometimes identical with decorate, as when we say, a lady was adorned with jewels. In other cases, it seems to imply something more. Thus, we speak of a gallery of paintings as adorned with the works of some of the great masters, or adorned with noble statuary and columns. Here decorated and ornamented would hardly be appropriate. There is a value in these works of genius beyond mere show and ornament. Adorn may be used of what is purely moral; as, a character adorned with every Christian grace. Here neither decorate, nor ornament, nor embellish is proper.

Adorn

A*dorn", n. Adornment. [Obs.] Spenser.

Adorn

A*dorn", a. Adorned; decorated. [Obs.] Milton.

To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

Adornment.

Adorned; decorated.

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Usage Examples

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.