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emblem

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See also: Emblem and emblém

English

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Etymology

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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”). Doublet of emblema.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɛmbləm/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: em‧blem

Noun

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emblem (plural emblems)

  1. A representative symbol, such as a trademark or logo.
    Synonyms: symbol, token
    The medical trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross.
  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.
    • 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities […] ”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)‎[1]:
      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.
    • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1718, Francis Quarles, Emblems, divine and moral ; together with Hieroglyphicks of the life of man‎[2]:
      An Emblem is but a ſilent Parable:
  6. (heraldry) A picture placed on the field of the escutcheon.
    Hypernym: bearing
    Near-synonym: charge

Derived terms

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Translations

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Verb

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emblem (third-person singular simple present emblems, present participle embleming, simple past and past participle emblemed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To symbolize.

Further reading

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Danish

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Noun

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emblem n (singular definite emblemet, plural indefinite emblemer)

  1. emblem

Declension

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Declension of emblem
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative emblem emblemet emblemer emblemerne
genitive emblems emblemets emblemers emblemernes

References

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From French emblème, from Latin emblema, from Ancient Greek ἔμβλημα (émblēma, “an insertion”).

Noun

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emblem n (definite singular emblemet, indefinite plural emblem or emblemer, definite plural emblema or emblemene)

  1. an emblem

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From French emblème, from Latin emblema, from Ancient Greek ἔμβλημα (émblēma).

Noun

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emblem n (definite singular emblemet, indefinite plural emblem, definite plural emblema)

  1. an emblem

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Romanian

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Noun

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emblem n (plural embleme)

  1. Obsolete form of emblemă.

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative emblem emblemul embleme emblemele
genitive-dative emblem emblemului embleme emblemelor
vocative emblemule emblemelor

References

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  • emblem in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Swedish

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Noun

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emblem n

  1. emblem

Declension

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Declension of emblem
nominative genitive
singular indefinite emblem emblems
definite emblemet emblemets
plural indefinite emblem emblems
definite emblemen emblemens

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