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emblem

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
16
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈɛmbləm/

Definition of emblem

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A representative symbol, such as a trademark, a badge or logo.
    “The medical trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross.”
    “His ſicatrice, with an Embleme of warre, heere on his ſiniſter cheeke;”
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noun

  1. A representative symbol, such as a trademark, a badge or logo.
    “The medical trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross.”
    “His ſicatrice, with an Embleme of warre, heere on his ſiniſter cheeke;”
  2. Something that represents a larger whole.
    “The rampant poverty in the ethnic slums was just an emblem of the group's disenfranchisement by the society as a whole.”
    “Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.”
  3. Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
    “Broider'd the ground, more color'd than with stone Of costliest emblem”
  4. A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
    “An Emblem is but a ſilent Parable:”
  5. A picture placed on the field of the escutcheon.
    “Near-synonym: charge”

verb

  1. (obsolete, transitive)To symbolize.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Old French embleme, from Latin emblēma (“raised ornaments on vessels, tessellated work, mosaic”), from Ancient Greek ἔμβλημα (émblēma, “an insertion”), from ἐμβάλλειν (embállein, “to put in, to lay on”). Doublet of emblema.

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