medal

See also: meðal

English
The National Geographic Society's "Hubbard Medal"

Etymology

From Middle French medaille, medale, from Italian medaglia, from Late Latin medalia (“half a denarius”) for mediālia.

Pronunciation
  • enPR: mĕdʹ-əl, IPA(key): /ˈmɛdəl/
  • Rhymes: -ɛdəl

Noun

medal (plural medals)

  1. A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object.
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
      , II.i.3:
      Whether their images, shrines, relics, consecrated things, holy water, medals, benedictions, those divine amulets, holy exorcisms, and the sign of the cross, be available in this disease?
  2. A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward.

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • silver medal: a medal designed for second-place winners
  • tea and medals
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Translations

Verb

medal (third-person singular simple present medals, present participle medaling or medalling, simple past and past participle medaled or medalled)

  1. (intransitive, sports, colloquial) To win a medal.
    He medalled twice at the Olympics.
    • 2013 January 13, Elizabeth Alderfer as Anna, “Je Ne Sais What?”, in The Good Wife, season 4, episode 12:
      I wanted to medal. I was pregnant and I wanted to medal.
  2. (transitive) To award a medal to.

Anagrams

Crimean Tatar

Noun

medal

  1. medal.

Declension
Declension of medal
nominative medal
genitive medalniñ
dative medalge
accusative medalni
locative medalde
ablative medalden

References
  • Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Estonian

Noun

medal (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

  1. medal

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Polish
Medals engraved by Polish artist Zbigniew Kotyłło

Etymology

From French médaille

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛ.dal/
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Noun

medal m inan

  1. medal

Declension
declension of medal
singular plural
nominative medal medale
genitive medalu medali
dative medalowi medalom
accusative medal medale
instrumental medalem medalami
locative medalu medalach
vocative medalu medale

Derived terms
  • medalowy
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