principally mechanical, but not originally so ('and so home, and there find my wife mightily out of order, and reproaching of Mrs. 1400 out of order 'not in proper sequence or orderly arrangement' is from 1540s since 20c. In order 'in proper sequence or arrangement' is from c. Meaning 'condition of a community which is under the rule of law' is from late 15c. In natural history, as a classification of living things next below class and next above family, it is recorded from 1760. The business and commerce sense of 'a written direction to pay money or deliver property' is attested by 1837 as 'a request for food or drink in a restaurant' from 1836. The meaning 'command, directive' is first recorded 1540s, from the notion of 'that which keep things in order.' Military and honorary orders grew out of the fraternities of Crusader knights. Sense of 'a regular sequence or succession' is from late 14c. Meaning 'a rank in the (secular) community' is first recorded c. From the notion of 'formal disposition or array, methodical or harmonious arrangement' comes the meaning 'fit or consistent collocation of parts' (late 14c.). Old English expressed many of the same ideas with endebyrdnes.

The original English word reflects a medieval notion: 'a system of parts subject to certain uniform, established ranks or proportions,' and was used of everything from architecture to angels. Watkins suggests it is a variant of PIE root *ar- 'to fit together,' and De Vaan finds this 'semantically attractive.' 1200, 'body of persons living under a religious discipline,' from Old French ordre 'position, estate rule, regulation religious order' (11c.), from earlier ordene, from Latin ordinem (nominative ordo) 'row, line, rank series, pattern, arrangement, routine,' originally 'a row of threads in a loom,' from Proto-Italic *ordn- 'row, order' (source also of ordiri 'to begin to weave ' compare primordial), which is of uncertain origin. If you don't find what you're looking for in the list below, or if there's some sort of bug and it's not displaying ornament related words, please send me feedback using this page.C. has something to do with ornament, then it's obviously a good idea to use concepts or words to do with ornament. The results below obviously aren't all going to be applicable for the actual name of your pet/blog/startup/etc., but hopefully they get your mind working and help you see the links between various concepts. business names, or pet names), this page might help you come up with ideas. If you're looking for names related to ornament (e.g.

So it's the sort of list that would be useful for helping you build a ornament vocabulary list, or just a general ornament word list for whatever purpose, but it's not necessarily going to be useful if you're looking for words that mean the same thing as ornament (though it still might be handy for that). So although you might see some synonyms of ornament in the list below, many of the words below will have other relationships with ornament - you could see a word with the exact opposite meaning in the word list, for example. There are already a bunch of websites on the net that help you find synonyms for various words, but only a handful that help you find related, or even loosely associated words. If you just care about the words' direct semantic similarity to ornament, then there's probably no need for this. The frequency data is extracted from the English Wikipedia corpus, and updated regularly. You can highlight the terms by the frequency with which they occur in the written English language using the menu below. So for example, you could enter 'decoration' and click 'filter', and it'd give you words that are related to ornament and decoration. You can also filter the word list so it only shows words that are also related to another word of your choosing. By default, the words are sorted by relevance/relatedness, but you can also get the most common ornament terms by using the menu below, and there's also the option to sort the words alphabetically so you can get ornament words starting with a particular letter.

The words at the top of the list are the ones most associated with ornament, and as you go down the relatedness becomes more slight. You can get the definition(s) of a word in the list below by tapping the question-mark icon next to it. The top 4 are: decoration, decorate, adorn and embellish. Below is a massive list of ornament words - that is, words related to ornament.

Relax word ornament