pendant

A small decorative object that hangs from a chain around your neck.

• She wears a silver pendant.
• He gave me a pendant shaped like a leaf.
• The pendants hung from delicate gold chains.

Common phrases: gold pendant, wear a pendant, pendant necklace

A light that hangs down from the ceiling.

• A pendant hangs above the table.
• We installed three pendants in the kitchen.
• This glass pendant gives a soft light.

Similar words: hanging light

Common phrases: pendant light, kitchen pendant, glass pendant

The stem and ring at the top of a pocket watch, used to attach it to a chain.

• The watch chain clips onto the pendant.
• The antique watch had a damaged pendant.
• She examined the pendant before repairing the watch.

Common phrases: watch pendant, pendant ring

A work of art, writing, or music made to match or complete another work.

• The portrait was painted as a pendant to another.
• His second essay forms a pendant to the first.
• The composer wrote a pendant to the opening piece.

How to use it: a pendant to something (The poem is a pendant to her earlier story.)

Similar words: companion piece

Common phrases: pendant to something, musical pendant

One of two matching things, or something that corresponds closely to another.

• This vase has a matching pendant.
• The bronze figure is a pendant to the marble one.
• We displayed the ornament beside its pendant.

How to use it: a pendant to something (This vase is the pendant to the one beside it.)

Similar words: counterpart, match

Common phrases: pendant to something, matching pendant