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| 1. | a hanging ornament, as an earring or the main piece suspended from a necklace. |
| 2. | an ornament suspended from a roof, vault, or ceiling. |
| 3. | a hanging electrical lighting fixture; chandelier. |
| 4. | that by which something is suspended, as the ringed stem of a watch. |
| 5. | a match, parallel, companion, or counterpart. |
| 6. | Also, pennant. Nautical. a length of rope attached to a masthead, the end of a yardarm, etc., and having a block or thimble secured to its free end. |
| 7. | pendent. |
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| 1. | hanging or suspended: a pendent lamp. |
| 2. | overhanging; jutting; projecting: pendent cliffs. |
| 3. | undecided; undetermined; pending: a lawsuit that is still pendent. |
| 4. | impending. |
| 5. | pendant. |

pen·dant 2 (pěn'dənt) adj. Variant of pendent1. |