decoration
The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
Other meanings
Any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment or ornamentation.
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.
Related words
- decorational
- decorationist
- immunodecoration
- nondecoration
- overdecoration
- redecoration
- decoration worker
- interior decoration
- table decoration
Word history
From Latin "decoratio".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “decoration” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.