Chandelier
noun
A light fixture hanging from the ceiling, usually with many bulbs or candles.
The chandelier in the dining room sparkled brightly.
Often appears as...
- crystal chandelier
- hanging chandelier
noun
A light fixture hanging from the ceiling, usually with many bulbs or candles.
The chandelier in the dining room sparkled brightly.
Often appears as...
- crystal chandelier
- hanging chandelier
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Pro Tip 1/3Luxury Connotation
Chandeliers are often seen as luxurious and opulent, indicating wealth or formal settings.
The grand ballroom's chandelier added to the opulence of the event.
Pro Tip 2/3Indoor Use
Chandeliers are designed for indoor spaces, primarily in areas like dining rooms and lobbies.
They installed a vintage chandelier to complete the library's classic design.
Pro Tip 3/3Size Implication
The use of 'chandelier' usually suggests a larger light fixture, smaller ones are often called pendants.
The ceiling could only support a small chandelier, not the grand one they wanted.
Pro Tip 1/3Luxury Connotation
Chandeliers are often seen as luxurious and opulent, indicating wealth or formal settings.
The grand ballroom's chandelier added to the opulence of the event.
Pro Tip 2/3Indoor Use
Chandeliers are designed for indoor spaces, primarily in areas like dining rooms and lobbies.
They installed a vintage chandelier to complete the library's classic design.
Pro Tip 3/3Size Implication
The use of 'chandelier' usually suggests a larger light fixture, smaller ones are often called pendants.
The ceiling could only support a small chandelier, not the grand one they wanted.
Pro Tip 1/3Luxury Connotation
Chandeliers are often seen as luxurious and opulent, indicating wealth or formal settings.
The grand ballroom's chandelier added to the opulence of the event.
Pro Tip 2/3Indoor Use
Chandeliers are designed for indoor spaces, primarily in areas like dining rooms and lobbies.
They installed a vintage chandelier to complete the library's classic design.
Pro Tip 3/3Size Implication
The use of 'chandelier' usually suggests a larger light fixture, smaller ones are often called pendants.
The ceiling could only support a small chandelier, not the grand one they wanted.
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Tod Machover & Dan...
and the entire stage becomes the main character. It becomes his legacy. And the opera is about what we can share, what we can pass on to others, to the people we love, and what we can't. Every object in the opera comes alive and is a gigantic music instrument, like this chandelier. It takes up the whole stage. It looks like a chandelier, but it's actually a robotic music instrument.
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What fear can teach us PIPE...
I remember how frightening it was to see the chandelier that hung above our dining table swing back and forth during every minor earthquake, and I sometimes couldn't sleep at night, terrified that the Big One might strike while we were sleeping. And what we say about kids who have fears like that
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The beautiful future of...
So I use these crystals to focus the light onto a solar panel, making them more efficient, but using aesthetics. So you take the solar crystal with you in the light, there's a battery in the solar cell, you put it in a docking station and you are able to power these chandeliers.
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Deep Sea Anglerfish Sex...
across the most bizarre animal. We saw these , they were like bizarre lights chandeliers hanging in the water and then lots of squid. Squid were the most common organism that we saw and very often they were hanging in the water column in a sort of symmetrical position.
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Life Beyond the Sun by...
atmosphere a beauty locked in synthesis you hung there like a chandelier the weight of pure magnificence for billions of years others gathered close to you and gazed on you in silence United in fixation this horde of new admirers there were dozens tens of dozens each
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YouTubers' Favourite...
but the most amazing moment is when we see lechuguilla cave those gypsum formations are just breathtaking almost no one is allowed in that cave and it's probably the last time it'll be filmed in our lifetime that's really special the chandelier ballroom was the
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Sea Salps PIPE National...
they pump water through their bodies to breathe catch food and move about as you can see there is diverse as snowflakes as beautiful as crystal chandeliers drifting gracefully through the oceans of the world
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The paradox of...
Other people might just have thrown it away, but Leski was inspired to produce a starburst chandelier that was probably the most notable of its kind of the 20th century. Fourth, sometimes try the hard way.
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How glaciers impact...
aurora borealis and the glacier glows refracts light like a chandelier and were enveloped above and below with light and ice incredible unforgettable this moment for it's a part of who I am
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"The Nutritionist" by...
My bones said “write the poem.” To the lamplight. Considering the river bed. To the chandelier of your fate hanging by a thread. To everyday you could not get out of bed.
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Tod Machover & Dan...
and the entire stage becomes the main character. It becomes his legacy. And the opera is about what we can share, what we can pass on to others, to the people we love, and what we can't. Every object in the opera comes alive and is a gigantic music instrument, like this chandelier. It takes up the whole stage. It looks like a chandelier, but it's actually a robotic music instrument.
Video examples
What fear can teach us PIPE...
I remember how frightening it was to see the chandelier that hung above our dining table swing back and forth during every minor earthquake, and I sometimes couldn't sleep at night, terrified that the Big One might strike while we were sleeping. And what we say about kids who have fears like that
Video examples
The beautiful future of...
So I use these crystals to focus the light onto a solar panel, making them more efficient, but using aesthetics. So you take the solar crystal with you in the light, there's a battery in the solar cell, you put it in a docking station and you are able to power these chandeliers.
Video examples
Deep Sea Anglerfish Sex...
across the most bizarre animal. We saw these , they were like bizarre lights chandeliers hanging in the water and then lots of squid. Squid were the most common organism that we saw and very often they were hanging in the water column in a sort of symmetrical position.
Video examples
Life Beyond the Sun by...
atmosphere a beauty locked in synthesis you hung there like a chandelier the weight of pure magnificence for billions of years others gathered close to you and gazed on you in silence United in fixation this horde of new admirers there were dozens tens of dozens each
Video examples
YouTubers' Favourite...
but the most amazing moment is when we see lechuguilla cave those gypsum formations are just breathtaking almost no one is allowed in that cave and it's probably the last time it'll be filmed in our lifetime that's really special the chandelier ballroom was the
Video examples
Sea Salps PIPE National...
they pump water through their bodies to breathe catch food and move about as you can see there is diverse as snowflakes as beautiful as crystal chandeliers drifting gracefully through the oceans of the world
Video examples
The paradox of...
Other people might just have thrown it away, but Leski was inspired to produce a starburst chandelier that was probably the most notable of its kind of the 20th century. Fourth, sometimes try the hard way.
Video examples
How glaciers impact...
aurora borealis and the glacier glows refracts light like a chandelier and were enveloped above and below with light and ice incredible unforgettable this moment for it's a part of who I am
Video examples
"The Nutritionist" by...
My bones said “write the poem.” To the lamplight. Considering the river bed. To the chandelier of your fate hanging by a thread. To everyday you could not get out of bed.
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Ritesh Agarwal
Indian Businessman
A lot of hotels have beautiful chandeliers because the asset owner is emotional about having chandeliers in the property. I always say that the customers aren't going to have chandeliers for breakfast. You'd rather take that money and give great breakfasts to the customer.
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George Jean Nathan
American Editor
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
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Pranab Mukherjee
Indian Statesman
I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi.
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Candace Bushnell
American Writer
I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.
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Michael Dirda
American Critic
Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.
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Jim Bakker
American Celebrity
Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?
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Christina Anstead
American Celebrity
I'm really all about lighting, so basically every room in my house has a chandelier, at least all the main ones.
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Matthew Macfadyen
English Actor
There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.
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Peter York
British Journalist
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.
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Candice Olson
Canadian Designer
Why have one chandelier when you can have two?
Quote examples
Ritesh Agarwal
Indian Businessman
A lot of hotels have beautiful chandeliers because the asset owner is emotional about having chandeliers in the property. I always say that the customers aren't going to have chandeliers for breakfast. You'd rather take that money and give great breakfasts to the customer.
Quote examples
George Jean Nathan
American Editor
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
Quote examples
Pranab Mukherjee
Indian Statesman
I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi.
Quote examples
Candace Bushnell
American Writer
I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.
Quote examples
Michael Dirda
American Critic
Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.
Quote examples
Jim Bakker
American Celebrity
Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?
Quote examples
Christina Anstead
American Celebrity
I'm really all about lighting, so basically every room in my house has a chandelier, at least all the main ones.
Quote examples
Matthew Macfadyen
English Actor
There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.
Quote examples
Peter York
British Journalist
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.
Quote examples
Candice Olson
Canadian Designer
Why have one chandelier when you can have two?
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