garland

See also: Garland

English

A garland of flowers

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English garland, garlaunde, gerland, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French garlande, garlaunde, gerlande, guerlande (compare French guirlande), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *wierlōn, *wieralōn, a frequentative form of (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  wierōn (“to adorn, bedeck”), from *wiera (“a gold thread”), akin to Old High German wieren (“to adorn”), Old High German wiara (“gold thread”). More at wire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑɹlənd/

Noun

garland (plural garlands)

1. A wreath, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.

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2. An accolade or mark of honour.
3. (mining) A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.
4. The crown of a monarch.

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5. (dated) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
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     They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands.

6. The top; the thing most prized.

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7. (nautical) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.
8. (nautical) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.

Translations

wreath of flowers

• Afrikaans: gierlande
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ծաղկեպսակ (hy) (caġkepsak)
• Bulgarian: гирлянда f (girljanda)
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: guirlande (nl) f
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: seppele (fi) (worn), köynnös (fi) (decoration)
• French: guirlande (fr) f
• Galician: grilanda f
• Georgian: ყვავილწნული (q̇vavilc̣nuli), გირლანდა (girlanda)
• German: Girlande (de) f
• Greek: γιρλάντα (el) f (girlánta)

  Ancient: στέμμα n (stémma)

• Hawaiian: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: माला (hi) f (mālā)
• Hungarian: girland
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Latgalian: veitine
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• Latvian: vītne
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: венец m (venec)
• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krans (no) m

  Nynorsk: krans m

• Persian: بساک (fa) (basāk)
• Polish: girlanda (pl) f
• Portuguese: grinalda (pt) f
• Russian: гирля́нда (ru) f (girljánda), вено́к (ru) m (venók), вене́ц (ru) (venéc)
• Sanskrit: माला (sa) f (mālā)
• Spanish: guirnalda (es) f
• Swedish: krans (sv) c, girlang (sv) c
• Tagalog: girlanda
• Tamil: மாலை (ta) (mālai)
• Telugu: మాల (te) (māla)
• Thai: มาลัย (th), พวงมาลัย (puuang-maa-lai)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Urdu: مالا f (mālā)

accolade, mark of honour

• Armenian: մրցանակ (hy) (mrcʻanak)
• Bulgarian: аколада f (akolada)
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: ereteken (nl) n
• Finnish: kunnianosoitus
• French: please add this translation if you can
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• Georgian: ჯილდო (ǯildo), პრიზი (ṗrizi)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: galardón (es), marco de honor m or c
• Swedish: kedjekoppling

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Translations to be checked

• Catalan: ^{(please verify)} garlanda (ca) f
• German: ^{(please verify)} Girlande (de) f
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• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} cunună (ro), ^{(please verify)} coroană (ro)
• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} దండ (te) (daṇḍa), ^{(please verify)} హారం (te) (hāraṁ), ^{(please verify)} మాల (te) (māla)

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

Anagrams

• Ragland