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frieze

frieze
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [freez]
    • /friz/
    • /friːz/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [freez]
    • /friz/

Definitions of frieze word

  • noun frieze a heavy, napped woolen cloth for coats. 1
  • noun frieze Heavy, coarse woolen cloth with a nap, usually on one side only. 1
  • noun frieze mural, wall painting 1
  • countable noun frieze A frieze is a decoration high up on the walls of a room or just under the roof of a building. It consists of a long panel of carving or a long strip of paper with a picture or pattern on it. 0
  • noun frieze the horizontal band between the architrave and cornice of a classical entablature, esp one that is decorated with sculpture 0
  • noun frieze the upper part of the wall of a room, below the cornice, esp one that is decorated 0
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Origin of frieze

First appearance:

before 1555
One of the 31% oldest English words
1555-65; < Middle French frise, perhaps < Medieval Latin phrygium, frigium, frisium embroidered cloth, embroidery, Latin Phrygium, neuter of Phrygius Phrygian

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Parts of speech for Frieze

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
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frieze popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 85% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

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Synonyms for frieze

noun frieze

  • decoration — The decoration of a room is its furniture, wallpaper, and ornaments.
  • band — A band is a small group of musicians who play popular music such as jazz, rock, or pop.
  • strip — to cut, tear, or form into strips.
  • panel — a distinct portion, section, or division of a wall, wainscot, ceiling, door, shutter, fence, etc., especially of any surface sunk below or raised above the general level or enclosed by a frame or border.
  • mural — a large picture painted or affixed directly on a wall or ceiling.
All 8 Synonyms of frieze

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Related words

  • ionic

    Architecture. noting or pertaining to one of the five classical orders that in ancient Greece consisted of a fluted column with a molded base and a capital composed of four volutes, usually parallel to the architrave with a pulvinus connecting a pair on each side of the column, and an entablature typically consisting of an architrave of three fascias, a richly ornamented frieze, and a cornice corbeled out on egg-and-dart and dentil moldings, with the frieze sometimes omitted. Roman and Renaissance examples are often more elaborate, and usually set the volutes of the capitals at 45° to the architrave. Compare composite (def 3), Corinthian (def 2), Doric (def 3), Tuscan (def 2).

  • bucranium

    (in classical architecture) an ornament, especially on a frieze, having the form of the skull of an ox.

  • closed cornice

    a slightly projecting wooden cornice composed of a frieze board and a crown molding without a soffit.

  • cothamore

    a frieze fabric, often used in the manufacture of overcoats.

  • demimetope

    the space between the end of a Doric frieze and the first triglyph.

  • entablature

    A horizontal, continuous lintel on a classical building supported by columns or a wall, comprising the architrave, frieze, and cornice.
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