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pendant
[ pen-duhnt ]
noun
- a hanging ornament, as an earring or the main piece suspended from a necklace.
- an ornament suspended from a roof, vault, or ceiling.
- a hanging electrical lighting fixture; chandelier.
- that by which something is suspended, as the ringed stem of a watch.
- a match, parallel, companion, or counterpart.
adjective
pendant
/ ˈpɛndənt /
noun
- an ornament that hangs from a piece of jewellery
- a necklace with such an ornament
- a hanging light, esp a chandelier
- a carved ornament that is suspended from a ceiling or roof
- something that matches or complements something else
- Also calledpennant nautical a length of wire or rope secured at one end to a mast or spar and having a block or other fitting at the lower end
adjective
- a variant spelling of pendent
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Other Words From
- pendant·ed adjective
- pendant·like adjective
- non·pendant adjective
- un·pendant adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pendant1
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Example Sentences
Three years later, another father and son duo found a 500-year-old gold pendant worth $4 million in Essex.
But the beautiful porcelain pendant that Agatha (Saoirse Ronan) wears.
It was made by society jewelers Garrard, who refashioned the gems from a pendant she was given by her husband, George VI.
The pendant light is a flotilla of hot air balloons hand blown in glass.
It had a pendant that looked like a house, which to me signifies warmth and happiness.
The dew moistened each leaf, or hung in glittering pendant drops upon the thorn of the prickly pears which lined the roads.
Jimmy sat bolt upright, his black hat pendant between his knees.
Histoire de l'Europe pendant la Révolution Française, ii., 58-60.
A gold chain, with a number of pendant scaraboei, was found in a tomb in Vulci, transcending anything before seen by him.
Each bore a slender wand of two triangles of reeds adorned at the corners with pendant plumes.
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