Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The art or process, originating in Japan, of folding paper into shapes representing flowers and birds, for example.
- n. A decorative object made by folding paper.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The Japanese art of paper folding.
- n. countable A piece of art made by folding paper.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds)
Etymologies
- From Japanese 折り紙 (origami) (Wiktionary)
- Japanese : ori, to fold + kami, paper. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“As in origami light for outdoors this subject and certainly like combining emotion and light.”
“Akira Yoshizawa, who is considered to be the man who elevated origami from a craft to an art form.”
The Huffington Post: George Heymont: There's Art Right At Your Fingertips!
“JUST COOL Design Blog on 20 Aug 2008 at 7: 36 pm # love the clean minimalist lines – and its folded like a piece of paper – they should call it origami house -”
“Instead of writing, I'm trying to fold something in origami that doesn't look like an amoeba.”
“I can't think of anything sufficiently snarky to say about this one, so I'll just let the phrase origami spaceplane stand on its own.”
“Is there some kind of rule in origami that it should be made of a single sheet of paper?”
“I will wrap little cones of it in origami paper to give to my colleagues back in Andijon.”
“Bank note origami from a Japanese artist Hasegawa Yosuke - see his Including bicycle parking trees and a wild sky lane James Gaussman and the Jewelled Pyramid of China”
“Hundreds of people around me were enfolded in origami-like nylon chairs they’d extracted from quivers and set up next to Lego-colored coolers.”
“Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean that origami is for kids.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘origami’.
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Visuals
A list of words which yield surprising, beautiful, amusing, or otherwise noteworthy images here on Wordnik.
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discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2053 more...
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The Japanese art of...
Words with definitions beginning with "The Japanese art of..." (or equivalent).
origami, kirigami, furoshiki, ikebana, makimono, ukiyo-e, netsuke, chindōgu, bonsai, naginatajutsu, butoh, Buyō and 30 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Words I like
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lily, defenestrate, gloaming, aesthetically, melody, translucent, semiotics, wistful, linear, origami, plethora, schadenfreude and 92 more...
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Words
Words I like.
jejune, eunoia, swallow, spelunk, milquetoast, echolalia, trumble, toothsome, synecdoche, taciturn, kerfuffle, aleatoric and 98 more...
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Things I love
teddy bear, automaton, origami, furoshiki, bow tie, crêpe, objet d'art
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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As soon as I finish this chapter
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procrastination, drily, rheumatism, rheum, suint, tiresome, wearisome, tiring, suboptimal, subpar, subprime, grange and 190 more...
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spamdad's Words
lambic, weizenbock, bock, zymurgy, vade mecum, quotidian, sesquipedalian, eremite, sphragis, privation, aegis, sui generis and 275 more...
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vivek's list
flibbertigibbet, droll, reticence, prelude, erinaceous, brinkmanship, depone, inaniloquent, limerance, pronk, onomatopoeia, oxymoron and 385 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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vnilla's Words
mellifluous, lackadaisical, effervescent, languorous, lilting, juxtapose, coalesce, desideratum, fey, intrinsic, languid, luminous and 134 more...
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Traveling the world!
byzantine, acropolis, pagoda, minaret, rupee, compass, pilgrimage, origami, kami, ashram, arabesque, mediterranean
Tweets
Looking for tweets for origami.
jmjarmstrong JM was sad to hear that his favourite online origami store has folded. May 30, 2011
sarra ! Dec 2, 2008
Prolagus 折り紙 = origami = paper-folding
折り神 = origami = God-folding Dec 2, 2008
immerbeta The word is Japanese, literally meaning to fold (oru) paper (kami). Dec 2, 2008