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pendant - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Noun

pendant (plural pendants)

  • (architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter. [from 14th c.]
  • A piece of jewellery which hangs down as an ornament, especially worn on a chain around the neck. [from 15th c.]
  • The dangling part of an earring. [from 16th c.]
  • (nautical) A short rope hanging down, used to attach hooks for tackles; a pennant. [from 15th c.]
  • (fine arts) One of a pair; a counterpart.
    • ✤ One vase is the pendant to the other vase.
  • (US) The stem and ring of a watch, by which it is suspended.1
  • A lamp hanging from the roof.
  • An ornament of wood or of stone hanging downwards from a roof.
  • A long narrow flag at the head of the principal mast in a royal ship.
  • (obsolete) An appendix or addition, as to a book.
    • ✤ Many […] have been pleased with this work and its pendant, the Tales and Popular Fictions.2
  • (obsolete, in the plural) Testicles. [15th–17th c.]
  • (obsolete) A pendulum.
    • ✤ a pendant being brought up to any height by the force of a former motion downwards3

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman pendaunt,4 Middle French pendant, noun use of adjective.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈpɛnd(ə)nt/, [ˈpɛndn̩t]
    • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
      • (pin–pen merger) IPA: /ˈpɪ̟nd(ə)nt/, [ˈpɪ̟ndn̩t]
  • (nautical) IPA: /ˈpɛnənt/
    • (pin–pen merger) IPA: /ˈpɪ̟nənt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛndənt
  • Hyphenation: pen‧dant
  • Homophone: pendent

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Footnotes

  1. Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Pendant”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC. ↩

  2. 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology: ↩

  3. 1644, Kenelme [i.e., Kenelm] Digby, Two Treatises. In the One of which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked into: In Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules, Paris: […] Gilles Blaizot, →OCLC: ↩

  4. Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “pendant”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. ↩

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