ornament

decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object
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ornament

Summary

ornament ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (73 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • ornament is a type of decoration[2].
  • ornament is a type of design[3].
  • ornament is a type of artificial physical object[4].
  • ornament is a type of work[5].
  • ornament's Commons category is recorded as Ornaments[6].
  • ornament's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Ornaments[7].
  • ornament's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[8].
  • ornament's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[9].
  • ornament's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10].
  • ornament's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • ornament's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[12].
  • ornament's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • ornament's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • ornament's partially coincident with is recorded as decoration[15].
  • ornament's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'la', 'text': 'ornamentum'}[16].
  • ornament's has list is recorded as list of ornaments[17].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include decoration[2], design[3], artificial physical object[4], and work[5].

Why It Matters

ornament ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (73 views/month).[1] ornament has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] ornament is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Subclass of decoration, design, artificial physical object +1
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    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ [[Property:P2347]], mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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