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name
A surname originating as an occupation for a maker or seller of garlands.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A male given name transferred from the surname.
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Usage: countable
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name
A number of places in the United States, named for persons with the surname:
A town in Miller County, Arkansas.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, named for persons with the surname:
An unincorporated community in Bourbon County, Kansas.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, named for persons with the surname:
A town in Penobscot County, Maine.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, named for persons with the surname:
An unincorporated community in Henry County, Missouri.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, named for persons with the surname:
A village in Seward County, Nebraska.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, named for persons with the surname:
A town in Sampson County, North Carolina.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, named for persons with the surname:
An unincorporated community in Miami County, Ohio.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, named for persons with the surname:
A city mostly in Dallas County, Texas.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, named for persons with the surname:
A city in Box Elder County, Utah.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A number of places in the United States, named for persons with the surname:
A census-designated place in Park County, Wyoming.
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name
A locality in the Blayney council area, central eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A circular or linear decoration, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
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noun
An accolade or mark of honour.
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noun
A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, mining
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noun
The crown of a monarch.
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noun
A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
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noun
The top; the thing most prized.
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noun
A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
To deck or ornament something with a garland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To form something into a garland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: wreath, coronal, chaplet, lei
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Broader terms: flower arrangement, floral arrangement
Narrower terms: crown, laurel, laurel wreath, bay wreath
noun
an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: florilegium, miscellany
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Broader terms: anthology
noun
a city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: city, metropolis, urban center
noun
United States singer and film actress (1922-1969)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Judy Garland
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Broader terms: actress, singer, vocalist, vocalizer, vocaliser
verb
adorn with bands of flowers or leaves
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify
History
English surname, from the noun garland. Also derived from Garland in Devon, from an ancestor of the noun gore (“triangular piece of land”) + land.
From Middle English garland, garlaunde, gerland, from Old French garlande, garlaunde, gerlande, guerlande (compare French guirlande), from Frankish *wierlōn, *wieralōn, a frequentative form of Frankish *wierōn (“to adorn, bedeck”), from *wiera (“a gold thread”), from or related to Proto-Germanic *wīraz. Akin to Old High German wieren (“to adorn”), Old High German wiara (“gold thread”). More at wire.
Across languages
77 source translations are retained for this English entry.
