Thesaurus: decoration

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1. n. The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
2. n. That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament.
3. n. 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.
4. n. something used to beautify
5. n. an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
6. n. the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive)
7. 1. The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation. 2. That which adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment; ornament. The hall was celebrated for . . . the richness of its decoration. Motley. 3. 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. Decoration Day, a day, May 30, appointed for decorating with flowers the graves of the Union soldiers and sailors, who fell in the Civil War in the United States; Memorial Day. [U.S.]
8. n:100 n. something used to beautify n. an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event n. the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive)