garlands

Meaning of garlands

plural noun
  1. a wreath of flowers and leaves, worn on the head or hung as a decoration.
  2. a prize or distinction.
  3. a literary anthology or miscellany.
verb, 3rd person present
  1. decorate with a garland.
    they were garlanded with flowers

Middle English: from Old French garlande, of unknown origin.

Information about garlands

  • The singular form of garlands is: garland.
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Hyphenation of garlands

gar-lands

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • garlands is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

garlands synonyms

Meaning a chain or garland of flowers, leaves, or ribbons, hung in a curve as a decoration:

festoon

Meaning a Polynesian garland of flowers:

lei

Meaning a ring made of or resembling soft, twisted material:

wreath

Meaning a series of linked metal rings used for fastening or securing something, or for pulling loads:

chain

Meaning a shape produced by a curve that bends round and crosses itself:

loop

Meaning a small circular band, typically of precious metal and often set with one or more gemstones, worn on a finger as an ornament or a token of marriage, engagement, or authority:

ring

Meaning a round plane figure whose boundary (the circumference) consists of points equidistant from a fixed point (the centre):

circle

Meaning a broad strip or area of something:

swathe

Meaning a curtain or piece of fabric fastened so as to hang in a drooping curve:

swag

Meaning a small or relatively simple crown, especially as worn by lesser royalty and peers or peeresses:

coronet

Meaning a circular ornamental headdress worn by a monarch as a symbol of authority, usually made of or decorated with precious metals and jewels:

crown

Meaning a coronal consonant:

coronal

Meaning a garland or circlet for a person's head:

chaplet

Meaning a fleshy boneless piece of meat from near the loins or the ribs of an animal:

fillet

Meaning a band of fabric worn around the head as a decoration or to keep the hair or perspiration off the face:

headband

Meaning cover, surround, or encircle (something):

wreathe

Meaning be adorned with (pictures or other decorations):

hang

Meaning pass a thread through the eye of (a needle) or through the needle and guides of (a sewing machine):

thread

Meaning arrange (cloth or clothing) loosely or casually on or round something:

drape

Meaning put something on top of or in front of (something), especially in order to protect or conceal it:

cover

Meaning make more beautiful or attractive:

adorn

Meaning make (something) look more attractive by adding decorative items:

ornament

Meaning make (something) more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features:

embellish

Meaning make (something) look more attractive by adding extra items or images to it:

decorate

Meaning decorate or adorn brightly or festively:

deck

Meaning make (something) neat or of the required size or form by cutting away irregular or unwanted parts:

trim

Meaning decorate (something) in an artistic or attractive way:

dress

Meaning display or arrange (things) in a particular way:

array

Meaning decorate:

bedeck

Meaning cover or adorn with something that glitters or sparkles:

bespangle

Meaning dress up or decorate gaudily:

bedizen

Meaning adorn with trimmings:

furbelow

Meaning (of a horse) be decked out in rich decorative coverings:

caparison

Words that rhyme with garlands

ands, SAANDs, abands, armbands, backbands, bands, bellybands, blackbands, browbands, contrabands, crossbands, disbands, fahlbands, greasebands, hairbands, hatbands, haybands, headbands, househusbands, husbands, neckbands, noncontrabands, nosebands, passbands, platbands, probands, rainbands, ribands, ribbands, robands, salbands, sarabands, shirtbands, sidebands, spacebands, sweatbands, trainbands, turbands, waistbands, watchbands, wavebands, wristbands, duplicands, multiplicands, radicands, deodands, fands, argands, brigands, ligands

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