decoration
/ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/
The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation; Any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment or ornamentation
- plural
- decorations
Meanings
- 1
The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation
This isn't just for decoration here.
Tatoeba · Ergulis · CC BY 2.0 FR
The decoration of the church is beautiful.
Tatoeba · Adelpa · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
Any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment or ornamentation
- 3
Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc
- 4
The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a hostrare
- 5
Refurbishment; renovationrare