WREATH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wreath mean? 

• WREATH (noun)
  The noun WREATH has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WREATH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WREATH (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("wreath" is a kind of...):

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

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

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)

 Context examples 

I make myself the wreath that you are to wear.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then she saw the boy, and cried to him: “Boy, bring me a wreath of flowers.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The Company stood peering into the dense fog-wreath, amidst a silence so profound that the dripping of the water from the rocks and the breathing of the horses grew loud upon the ear.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A thick fog rolled down between the lines of dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The fog seemed to break away as though split by a wedge, and the bow of a steamboat emerged, trailing fog-wreaths on either side like seaweed on the snout of Leviathan.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I was surprised at this circumstance: but still more was I amazed to perceive the air quite dim, as if filled with smoke; and, while looking to the right hand and left, to find whence these blue wreaths issued, I became further aware of a strong smell of burning.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Beth helped her dress, and made a charming little wreath for her hair, while Jo astonished her family by getting herself up with unusual care, and hinting darkly that the tables were about to be turned.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I looked on the valley beneath; vast mists were rising from the rivers which ran through it and curling in thick wreaths around the opposite mountains, whose summits were hid in the uniform clouds, while rain poured from the dark sky and added to the melancholy impression I received from the objects around me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Miss Woodhouse appeared more than once, and never without a something of pleasing connexion, either a compliment to her taste, or a remembrance of what she had said; and in the very last time of its meeting her eye, unadorned as it was by any such broad wreath of gallantry, she yet could discern the effect of her influence and acknowledge the greatest compliment perhaps of all conveyed.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Then, too, she loved nature, and with generous imagination he changed the scene of their reading—sometimes they read in closed-in valleys with precipitous walls, or in high mountain meadows, and, again, down by the gray sand-dunes with a wreath of billows at their feet, or afar on some volcanic tropic isle where waterfalls descended and became mist, reaching the sea in vapor veils that swayed and shivered to every vagrant wisp of wind.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)