emblem
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
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 [edit]
- IPA: /ˈɛmbləm/
Noun [edit]
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.
- 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.
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Synonyms [edit]
Translations [edit]
representative symbol
External links [edit]
- emblem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- emblem in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Swedish [edit]
Noun [edit]
emblem n