garland

IPA: gˈɑrɫʌnd

A circular or linear decoration, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
An accolade or mark of honour.
(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.
The crown of a monarch.
(dated) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
The top; the thing most prized.
(nautical) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.
(nautical) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
A surname originating as an occupation for a maker or seller of garlands.
Any of a number of places in the United States named for persons with the surname:
A city mostly in Dallas County, Texas.

Examples of "garland" in Sentences

On the top of the garland was the model of a ship, full-rigged, with sails set and colours flying.
The beach garland is sunburned, a silt shopworn, hot, as well as full of waste -- no place for upon foot barefoot.
The BSP leaders in Lucknow pointed out that there was no need for an inquiry, as the garland was a gift from party workers.
Keeping in mind that a garland is a traditional symbol of a young girl's virginity, here are the final lines: True, mother, true.
I knew that thou wouldst go abroad to-day, so I made this for thee in the morning; and when I was young I was called the garland-maker.
Her garland is tangled in a string of pearls and her father is aghast as she snaps the string and "amid a shower of pearls," the flowers fall.
It took a large number of lehua flowers to suffice for a wreath, and to bind them securely to the fillet that made them a garland was a work demanding not only artistic skill hut time and patience.
The term garland was also technically used to signify a crown of precious metal, often adorned with gems, made for the arrangement of natural or artificial flowers before the altar or sacred image at festival times.
As she passed the marble Dancing Girl, she seized the wreath that was thrown over its arm, and as she went circling round, it seemed as if the tune had become a visible spirit, and that the garland was a floating accompaniment to its graceful motions.