emblem

See also Emblem

English

Etymology

From Old French embleme, from Latin emblema (“raised ornaments on vessels, tessellated work, mosaic”), from Ancient Greek ἔμβλημα (emblema, “an insertion”), from ἔμβάλλειν (emballein, “to put in, to lay on”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛmbləm/

Noun

emblem (plural emblems)

1. 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.

2. 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.

Related terms

• emblematic
• emblematical

Synonyms

• symbol
• token (to betoken)

Translations

representative symbol

• Bulgarian: емблема (bg) (emblema) f
• Catalan: emblema (ca) m
• Czech: emblém (cs) m, znak (cs) m
• Dutch: embleem (nl) n
• Esperanto: emblemo (eo)
• French: emblème (fr) m
• German: Emblem (de) n
• Greek: έμβλημα (el) (émvlima) n

• Hungarian: embléma (hu), jelkép (hu)
• Japanese: 表号 (ja) (hyōgō)
• Portuguese: emblema (pt) m
• Russian: эмблема (ru) (embléma) f
• Serbo-Croatian: amblem (sh) m
• Spanish: emblema (es) m
• Swedish: emblem (sv) n
• Turkish: sancak (tr)

External links

• emblem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• emblem in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Swedish

Noun

emblem n

1. emblem

Declension

Declension of emblem

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