Pendent

Quick meaning: Pendent is an adjective meaning Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.

Meaning

Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.

More Meanings

1. Pending (in various senses).
2. (heraldry) Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.
3. (grammar, of a sentence) Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
4. (architecture, of a structure) Either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
5. Alternative spelling of pendant.
6. (obsolete) Projecting over something; overhanging.

Example Sentences

Az. a chev. or, betw. three acorns, pendent, Kymberlee.

JAUDRILL. Ermines, three round buckles ar. tongues pendent.

Jandrell, Sa. three buckles, the tongues pendent ar. two and a one.

page 207: de CAMPO REAL: chequy Sable and Argent on a chief Gules a crescent pendent of the field.

Word Forms

• pendents

Synonyms for pendent

Depending on context, synonyms include pendant, supported, dangling, hanging, suspended.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include dangling, hanging, supported, suspended, pendant, sprinkler.

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