adorn

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to make more attractive by adding decoration

   They adorned the garden with fountains and statues.

2. 2
   verb

   to furnish with power or authority

   The monarch's child was adorned at birth.

3. 3
   verb

   to be beautiful to look at

   Flowers adorned the tables everywhere.

4. 4
   verb

   To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.

   a man adorned with noble statuary and columns

5. 5
   noun

   adornment

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

6. 6
   adj

   adorned; ornate

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

Etymology

From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin adōrnāre; from ad- + ōrnō (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old French aorner, from the same Latin source.