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    To adorn something is to it — to put something pretty or special on it so it looks finer. You adorn a room with flowers, a hall with lights, a person with jewellery. The past form adorned with is very common: the table was adorned with fruit. It is a somewhat dressy, verb. Though actually, most people in ordinary life say , dress, or put up. You are more likely to meet adorn in invitations, stories, and careful writing than in “Can you adorn the classroom?” There is a related noun adornment for the thing you add, but the everyday job of this word is the verb.

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組成From Latin adornare, ad- (to, onto) + ornare (to furnish, to embellish). An older English form aournen, borrowed from French, was replaced by this Latin-shaped verb. Ornate and ornament keep the same ornare piece.

同家族的字

  • ornamentshares Latin ornare, to decorate
  • ornateshares the same Latin root: richly decorated
  • adornmentthe noun for a thing used to decorate

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

adornverb/əˈdɔɹn/

  • 1

    To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.

    • a man adorned with noble statuary and columns
    • a character adorned with every Christian grace

adornnoun/əˈdɔɹn/

  • 1

    obsoleteadornment

    • Her brest all naked, as nett yvory Without adorne of gold or silver bright

adornadj/əˈdɔɹn/

  • 1

    obsoleteadorned; ornate

    • And to realities yield all her shows: Made so adorn for thy delight the more

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