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# adornment

«adornment» in Mova's school dictionary: **Something added to make a person, thing or place look…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (adornment, adornments)

### meaning for a pupil

Something added to make a person, thing or place look more beautiful; a decoration or ornament. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adornment/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a jewel, ribbon or carved pattern is an adornment; a character may think no adornment is needed when someone is already lovely.

### examples

- Madam, your beauty needs no adornment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adornment/#x1)
- She wore a silver adornment in her hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adornment/#x2)
- The temple had many adornments. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adornment/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «adornment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/adornment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.