Definition of adorn

"adorn" in the verb sense

1. decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify

make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

"Decorate the room for the party"

"beautify yourself for the special day"

2. deck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautify

be beautiful to look at

"Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"

3. invest, clothe, adorn

furnish with power or authority of kings or emperors

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Quotations for adorn

Roses, and pinks, and violets, to adorn
The shrine of Flora in her early May. [ Keats ]

He left a name at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral or adorn a tale. [ Johnson ]

The foxglove, with its stately bells,
Of purple, shall adorn thy dells;
The wallflower, on each rifted rock,
From liberal blossoms shall breathe down,
(Gold blossoms frecked with iron-brown,)
Its fragrance; while the hollyhock,
The pink, and the carnation vie
With lupin and with lavender.
To decorate the fading year;
And larkspurs, many-hued, shall drive
Gloom from the groves, where red leaves lie.
And Nature seems but half alive. [ D. M. Moir ]

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn.
And violets bathe in the wet of the morn. [ Burns ]

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. [ Oliver Goldsmith ]

No radiant pearl which crested fortune wears,
No gem that, twinkling, hangs from beauty's ears,
Not the bright stars which night's blue arch adorn,
Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn.
Shine with such lustre as the tear that breaks
For other's woe, down virtue's manly cheeks. [ Darwin ]

A solitary blessing few can find,
Our joys with those we love are intertwined,
And he whose wakeful tenderness removes
The obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves,
Smooths not another's rugged path alone,
But scatters roses to adorn his own.

Gems which adorn the beauteous tresses of the weeping morn. [ Poole ]

Her eyes, like marigolds, had sheathed their light, and, canopied in darkness, sweetly lay, till they might open to adorn the day. [ William Shakespeare ]

We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory. [ Evelyn ]

Let women paint their eyes with tints of chastity, insert into their ears the word of God, tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion. [ Tertullian ]

The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her. [ Willmott ]

These studies are the food of youth and the consolation of old age; they adorn prosperity and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home and are no encumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats. [ Cicero ]

adorn in Scrabble®

The word adorn is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters adorn:

ADORN
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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word adorn

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In adorn

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adorn in Words With Friends™

The word adorn is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters adorn:

ADORN
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RADON
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Words containing the sequence adorn

Words that start with adorn (8 words)

Words that end with adorn (3 words)

Word Growth involving adorn

Shorter words in adorn

ad ado

do ado

or

Longer words containing adorn

adorned disadorned

adorned overadorned

adorned readorned

adorned unadorned unadornedly

adorned unadorned unadornedness

adorner adorners

adorning disadorning

adorning readorning

adornment adornments

adornment unadornment

adorns disadorns

adorns readorns

disadorn disadorned

disadorn disadorning

disadorn disadorns

readorn readorned

readorn readorning

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