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Meanings of adorn in English

Portuguese
ladear
Catalan
abillar
Spanish
decorar

To make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

      ladear
      Portuguese
      investir
      Catalan
      investir

      Furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors.

            investir
            Usage of adorn in English
            1
            The ivy-clad ruins of another adorn a height in this beautiful park.
            Ireland Under Coercion: The Diary of an American (1 of 2) / (2nd...
            2
            Portraits of past Mayors, in robes and gold chains, adorn the walls.
            Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce
            3
            Onyx stones, and precious stones to adorn the ephod and the rational.
            The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
            4
            And declared of the polished statues made to adorn the gardens, that
            Nature Mysticism
            5
            Edward had qualities more fitted to adorn the cloister than the throne.
            The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of England
            6
            When the Green Man noticed, he said, Flowers are meant to adorn.
            To the blight: the eye of the world
            7
            Scars adorn a man; on a woman they are ugly and repulsive.
            In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 03
            8
            Many, many strange and beautiful covers adorn the stacks on my shelf.
            The Irish Times
            9
            He had long ceased to adorn and enlighten the House of Commons.
            The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abol...
            10
            You are not to adorn Barfordshire any longer: that is the order.
            A Woman-Hater
            11
            I see fashion as an artistic expression of how you adorn yourself.
            The Guardian
            12
            Their portraits, painted by Titian, adorn the Venetian room of the Uffizzi.
            Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series
            13
            Their careers point no moral, even if they adorn the future tale.
            The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
            14
            She was certainly born to adorn the age she was given to.
            Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4
            15
            God endowed her with all the gifts that can adorn a woman.
            The Poor Gentleman
            16
            The men, as usual among savages, adorn themselves more than the women.
            The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 / The Land of the Orang-utan and...
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            Adorn across language varieties
            United Kingdom
            Common
            Ireland
            Common
            United States of America
            Less common