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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A wreath or garland for the head.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A band, fillet, garland, or wreath worn on the head: as, “wreaths and anadems,” Tennyson, Palace of Art. Also spelled anademe: as, “garlands, anademes, and wreaths,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A garland or fillet; a chaplet or wreath.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A headband, especially a garland of flowers.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin anadēma, from Greek, from anadein, to bind up : ana-, ana- + dein, to bind.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin anadema, from Ancient Greek αναδεμα ("head-band").

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Examples

  • Idris was as the star, set in single splendour in the dim anadem of balmy evening; ready to enlighten and delight the subject world, shielded herself from every taint by her unimagined distance from all that was not like herself akin to heaven.

    The Last Man 2003

  • Idris was as the star, set in single splendour in the dim anadem of balmy evening; ready to enlighten and delight the subject world, shielded herself from every taint by her unimagined distance from all that was not like herself akin to heaven.

    I.4 1826

  • Idris was as the star, set in single splendour in the dim anadem of balmy evening; ready to enlighten and delight the subject world, shielded herself from every taint by her unimagined distance from all that was not like herself akin to heaven.

    The Last Man 1826

  • Idris was as the star, set in single splendour in the dim anadem of balmy evening; ready to enlighten and delight the subject world, shielded herself from every taint by her unimagined distance from all that was not like herself akin to heaven.

    The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824

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  • treeseed commented on the word anadem

    American Heritage Dictionary:

    n. Archaic

    A wreath or garland for the head.

    February 23, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the word anadem

    Next day, or the day after the next, the entire family was having high tea in the garden. Ada, on the grass, kept trying to make an anadem of marguerites for the dog while Lucette looked on, munching a crumpet.

    --Vladimir Nabokov, 1969, Ada, or Ardor

    November 5, 2009