GARLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Garland mean? 

• GARLAND (noun)
  The noun GARLAND has 4 senses:

1. United States singer and film actress (1922-1969)

2. a city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas)

3. an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.

4. flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes

  Familiarity information: GARLAND used as a noun is uncommon.

• GARLAND (verb)
  The verb GARLAND has 1 sense:

1. adorn with bands of flowers or leaves

  Familiarity information: GARLAND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States singer and film actress (1922-1969)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Garland; Judy Garland

Instance hypernyms:

actress (a female actor)

singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Holonyms ("Garland" is a part of...):

Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

florilegium; garland; miscellany

Hypernyms ("garland" is a kind of...):

anthology (a collection of selected literary passages)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chaplet; coronal; garland; lei; wreath

Hypernyms ("garland" is a kind of...):

floral arrangement; flower arrangement (a decorative arrangement of flowers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "garland"):

crown (a wreath or garland worn on the head to signify victory)

bay wreath; laurel; laurel wreath ((antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory)

Derivation:

garland (adorn with bands of flowers or leaves)

• GARLAND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they garland    ... he / she / it garlands   
Past simple: garlanded   
Past participle: garlanded   
-ing form: garlanding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adorn with bands of flowers or leaves

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

They garlanded the statue

Hypernyms (to "garland" is one way to...):

adorn; beautify; decorate; embellish; grace; ornament (make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

garland (flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes)

 Context examples 

"On the contrary, I like it very much, dear," looking from the dusty rosary to the well-worn little book, and the lovely picture with its garland of evergreen.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But the bride said, “Run first, and bring me my garland that is hanging on a willow in the garden.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The pillow was burning: there is an asp in the garland: the wine has a bitter taste: her promises are hollow—her offers false: I see and know all this.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As he answered me his face grew stern, and he said in quite a different tone:—Oh, it was the grim irony of it all—this so lovely lady garlanded with flowers, that looked so fair as life, till one by one we wondered if she were truly dead; she laid in that so fine marble house in that lonely churchyard, where rest so many of her kin, laid there with the mother who loved her, and whom she loved; and that sacred bell going 'Toll! toll! toll!' so sad and slow; and those holy men, with the white garments of the angel, pretending to read books, and yet all the time their eyes never on the page; and all of us with the bowed head.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The old-fashioned brass knocker on the low arched door, ornamented with carved garlands of fruit and flowers, twinkled like a star; the two stone steps descending to the door were as white as if they had been covered with fair linen; and all the angles and corners, and carvings and mouldings, and quaint little panes of glass, and quainter little windows, though as old as the hills, were as pure as any snow that ever fell upon the hills.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And there were the low Paumotus, and the high Marquesas; he saw himself often, now, on board trading schooners or frail little cutters, slipping out at dawn through the reef at Papeete and beginning the long beat through the pearl-atolls to Nukahiva and the Bay of Taiohae, where Tamari, he knew, would kill a pig in honor of his coming, and where Tamari's flower-garlanded daughters would seize his hands and with song and laughter garland him with flowers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

When he was ascending the stairs with them, the gardener met him, and said: How can you take the king’s daughter a garland of such common flowers?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The stillness of early morning slumbered everywhere; the curtains were yet drawn over the servants' chamber windows; little birds were just twittering in the blossom-blanched orchard trees, whose boughs drooped like white garlands over the wall enclosing one side of the yard; the carriage horses stamped from time to time in their closed stables: all else was still.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A soft strain of music sounded, and then at the back of the cave appeared a little figure in cloudy white, with glittering wings, golden hair, and a garland of roses on its head.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Then Chanticleer ran to the garden, and took the garland from the bough where it hung, and brought it to the bride; and then the bride gave him the silken cord, and he took the silken cord to the river, and the river gave him water, and he carried the water to Partlet; but in the meantime she was choked by the great nut, and lay quite dead, and never moved any more.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)