CHANDELIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chandelier mean? 

• CHANDELIER (noun)
  The noun CHANDELIER has 1 sense:

1. branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling

  Familiarity information: CHANDELIER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANDELIER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Branched lighting fixture; often ornate; hangs from the ceiling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chandelier; pendant; pendent

Hypernyms ("chandelier" is a kind of...):

lighting fixture (a fixture providing artificial light)

 Context examples 

When they got home, the cook asked if they had not found them; so they said no, they had found nothing but a church, and there was a chandelier in it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

On the table, under a half-lit chandelier, the coffin was lying.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Faster and faster it flew, beating against walls and chandeliers in a blind frenzy of alarm.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am disposed to be gregarious and communicative to-night, he repeated, and that is why I sent for you: the fire and the chandelier were not sufficient company for me; nor would Pilot have been, for none of these can talk.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She walked up and down the long saloon while waiting for Laurie, and once arranged herself under the chandelier, which had a good effect upon her hair, then she thought better of it, and went away to the other end of the room, as if ashamed of the girlish desire to have the first view a propitious one.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The study found 48 unique genes following aerobic exercise, and 348 unique genes following weight lifting, that were differentially expressed, meaning the exercises made the genes more powerful or less powerful, like a dimmer switch on a chandelier.

(Molecular Response of Muscle to Different Types of Exercise Identified, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The long, many-pillared room, with its mirrors and chandeliers, was crowded with full-blooded, loud-voiced men-about-town, all in the same dark evening dress with white silk stockings, cambric shirt-fronts, and little, flat chapeau-bras under their arms.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And the cook scolded them and said: “You fools! why did you not pull the church to pieces, and bring the chandelier home with you?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I was carried into an inn, where the guard wanted me to have some dinner; but, as I had no appetite, he left me in an immense room with a fireplace at each end, a chandelier pendent from the ceiling, and a little red gallery high up against the wall filled with musical instruments.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I'm doing my best, ma'am, but can't get much higher, I'm afraid, as six feet is about all men can do in these degenerate days, responded the young gentleman, whose head was about level with the little chandelier.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)