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# decorator

«decorator» in Mova's school dictionary: **painting and wallpapering rooms and houses** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (decorator, decorators)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (UK) A person whose job is painting and wallpapering rooms and houses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decorator/#m1)

2) Someone who decorates things, like a cake decorator or interior decorator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decorator/#m2)

3) (computing) A special code feature that adds behaviour to a function (in languages like Python). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decorator/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, a painter and decorator paints walls. In art and cooking, a cake decorator makes cakes beautiful. In computing lessons, decorators appear in Python code.

### examples

- We hired a decorator to paint the living room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decorator/#x1)
- The painter and decorator wallpapered my bedroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decorator/#x2)
- She works as a cake decorator. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decorator/#x3)
- Interior decorators choose furniture and colours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decorator/#x4)
- The decorator covered the floor with sheets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decorator/#x5)
- Christmas decorators hung lights everywhere. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/decorator/#x6)

### note

From «decorate» plus «-or». Spelled -or, not -er.

### Trees and pragmatics

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