emblem
English
Etymology
From Old French embleme, from Latin emblema (“raised ornaments on vessels, tessellated work, mosaic”), from Ancient Greek ἔμβλημα (émblēma, “an insertion”), from ἐμβάλλειν (embállein, “to put in, to lay on”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛmbləm/
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Noun
emblem (plural emblems)
- A representative symbol, such as a trademark or logo.
- The trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross and were not supposed to be targeted.
- Shakespeare
- His cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek.
- Something which 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.
- 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):
- Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
- Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
Related terms
Translations
representative symbol
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representation of a larger whole
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Verb
emblem (third-person singular simple present emblems, present participle embleming, simple past and past participle emblemed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To symbolize.
Further reading
- emblem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- emblem in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Danish
Declension
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From French emblème, from Latin emblema, from Ancient Greek ἔμβλημα (émblēma, “an insertion”).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Swedish
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