How to pronounce “decoration”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• The act of adorning, embellishing, or honoring; ornamentation.
• Any item that adorns, enriches, or beautifies; something added by way of embellishment or ornamentation.
• Specifically, any mark of honor to be worn upon the person, as a medal, cross, or ribbon of an order of knighthood, bestowed for services in war, great achievements in literature, art, etc.
• (biochemistry, immunology) The use of exotic sugars as decoys to distract the immune system of a host
• (Hong Kong) Refurbishment; renovation

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