Usually means: Decoration that enhances or embellishes.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word ornament:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. ornament: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ornament: Merriam-Webster
  3. ornament: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ornament: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ornament: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ornament: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ornament, ornament: Wordnik
  8. ornament: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. ornament: Wiktionary
  10. ornament: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ornament: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ornament: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Ornament, ornament: Dictionary.com
  14. ornament (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. ornament: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Ornament (architecture), Ornament (art), Ornament (disambiguation), Ornament (football club), Ornament: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Ornament: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. ornament: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. ornament: Rhymezone
  20. Ornament (nt), ornament, ornament (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. ornament: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. ornament: FreeDictionary.org
  23. ornament: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. ornament: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. ornament: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Ornament (music): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ornament: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Ornament: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ornament (architecture), ornament: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ornament: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ornament: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ornament: The Folk File
  3. ornament: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See ornamented as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
noun:  A Christmas tree decoration.
noun:  (music) A musical flourish that is unnecessary to the overall melodic or harmonic line, but serves to decorate that line.
noun:  (Christianity, in the plural) The articles used in church services.
noun:  (biology) A characteristic that has a decorative function (typically in order to attract a mate)
verb:  To decorate.
verb:  To add to.

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