adorn

Meanings

Verb

• To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.

Noun

• adornment

Adjective

• adorned; ornate

Related

Similar words

• beautify
• bedeck
• decorate
• deck
• grace
• ornament
• prettify

Origin

• From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin adōrnāre, present active infinitive of adōrnō; from ad + ōrnō. See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen borrowed from Old French aorner, from the same Latin source.