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# trinket

«trinket» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small, cheap ornament or piece of jewellery** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (trinkets)

### meaning for a pupil

A trinket is a small, cheap ornament or piece of jewellery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trinket/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a merchant sells trinkets, and a royal bride is given trinkets with her jewels and gold

### examples

- The merchant sold trinkets to the children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trinket/#x1)
- She wore a silver trinket on a chain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trinket/#x2)
- He bought a box of trinkets for his sister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/trinket/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; a count of trinkets counts each item as one.

### Trees and pragmatics

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