garland
noun
a wreath or festoon of flowers, leaves, or other material, worn for ornament or as an honor or hung on something as a decoration.
garlands
-
pluralof garland.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
-
present tense formof garland (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
garlandnouna wreath or festoon of flowers, leaves, or other material, worn for ornament or as an honor or hung on something as a decoration.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Relatives also visited the blackened bar on Tuesday morning, laying garlands and praying for the dead, AFP reporters saw.
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
The fandom is intense and ritualistic, with celebratory first-day screenings, midnight and 04:00 shows, milk offerings on towering cut-outs, garlands, drums, and whistles.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
And the extras that people load up on when they are feeling flush, such as wreaths and garlands and baskets, haven’t been selling well at all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
Avery Colvert, who founded Altadena Girls in January as a 14-year-old, hung garlands and decorations around the 12,000-square-foot complex, beaming that what she’d built was at last open to the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
Even the garlands of fungi and shelves of jeweled bottles felt like the work of a past life.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
