garland

See also Garland

A garland of flowers

English

Etymology

From Old French gerlande (compare French guirlande).

Noun

garland (plural garlands)

Wikipedia

1. A wreath, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration
2. An accolade or mark of honour
3. coalminers' jargon a metal gutter placed round a mine shaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe

Translations

wreath of flowers

Finnish: seppele (fi) (worn), köynnös (fi) (decoration)

Hungarian: girland (hu)

accolade, mark of honour

Finnish: kunnianosoitus (fi)

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Armenian: պսակ (hy) (psak) Catalan: garlanda (ca) f. Dutch: slinger (nl) m. French: guirlande (fr)

German: Girlande (de) f. Romanian: cunună (ro), coroană (ro) Russian: гирлянда (ru) (girljánda) f. Telugu: దండ (te) (damDA), హారం (te) (haaram), మాల (te) (maala)

See also

• chaplet

Verb

garland (third-person singular simple present garlands, present participle garlanding, simple past and past participle garlanded)

1. (transitive) To deck or ornament something with a garland
2. (transitive) To form something into a garland