pendant

[ pen-duhnt ]

/ ˈpɛn dənt /

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noun Also pendent.

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.

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.

adjective

pendent.

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Origin of pendant

1300–50; Middle English pendaunt<Anglo-French; Middle French pendant, noun use of present participle of pendre to hang <Vulgar Latin *pendere for Latin pendēre.See pend, -ant

OTHER WORDS FROM pendant

pend·ant·ed, adjectivepend·ant·like, adjectivenon·pend·ant, adjectiveun·pend·ant, adjective

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH pendant

pendant , pendent, pennant, pundit

Words nearby pendant

pencil skirt, pencil stripe, pen computer, pend, Penda, pendant, Pendelikon, pendency, pendent, pendente lite, pendentive

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How to use pendant in a sentence

When I walk through a property with clients who are selling their home, I always recommend paying close attention to light fixtures in the entryway, dining room, pendant lighting in the kitchen, and bathrooms.
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The purse contained a set of keys that had an El Salvador keychain, a blue turtle, a pendant spelling out the word “Love” and what appears to be a glitter-covered canister of protective spray.
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Appropriately enough, “Sybille Bedford” makes just the right pendant to Selina Hastings’s excellent earlier biographies of Somerset Maugham and Evelyn Waugh.
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His parents even accessorize him in a mini diamond-encrusted watch and a tiny chain with a pendant that reads “papa bear.”
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She is having a necklace made of her sister’s fingerprint, a teardrop pendant similar to the one the sisters had made after Kim’s death.
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Three years later, another father and son duo found a 500-year-old gold pendant worth $4 million in Essex.
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But the beautiful porcelain pendant that Agatha (Saoirse Ronan) wears.
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It was made by society jewelers Garrard, who refashioned the gems from a pendant she was given by her husband, George VI.
Kate Dazzles in Vintage Tiara|Tom Sykes|December 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The pendant light is a flotilla of hot air balloons hand blown in glass.
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It had a pendant that looked like a house, which to me signifies warmth and happiness.
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The dew moistened each leaf, or hung in glittering pendant drops upon the thorn of the prickly pears which lined the roads.
Newton Forster|Captain Frederick Marryat
Jimmy sat bolt upright, his black hat pendant between his knees.
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Histoire de l'Europe pendant la Révolution Française, ii., 58-60.
The Political History of England - Vol. X.|William Hunt
A gold chain, with a number of pendant scaraboei, was found in a tomb in Vulci, transcending anything before seen by him.
The Bay State Monthly, Vol. II, No. 6, March, 1885|Various
Each bore a slender wand of two triangles of reeds adorned at the corners with pendant plumes.
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British Dictionary definitions for pendant

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 called: pennant 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

Word Origin for pendant

C14: from Old French, from pendre to hang, from Latin pendēre to hang down; related to Latin pendere to hang, pondus weight, Greek span to pull

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