emblem
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
emblem (plural emblems)
- A representative symbol, such as a trademark or logo.
- The medical trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross.
- c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
- 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)[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.
- Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
- 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Broider'd the ground, more color'd than with stone
Of costliest emblem
- A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
SynonymsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
representative symbol
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representation of a larger whole
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VerbEdit
emblem (third-person singular simple present emblems, present participle embleming, simple past and past participle emblemed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To symbolize.
Further readingEdit
- emblem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- emblem in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
DanishEdit
NounEdit
emblem n (singular definite emblemet, plural indefinite emblemer)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of emblem
| neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | emblem | emblemet | emblemer | emblemerne |
| genitive | emblems | emblemets | emblemers | emblemernes |
ReferencesEdit
- “emblem” in Den Danske Ordbog
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French emblème, from Latin emblema, from Ancient Greek ἔμβλημα (émblēma, “an insertion”).
NounEdit
emblem n (definite singular emblemet, indefinite plural emblem or emblemer, definite plural emblema or emblemene)
- an emblem
ReferencesEdit
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French emblème, from Latin emblema, from Ancient Greek ἔμβλημα (émblēma).
NounEdit
emblem n (definite singular emblemet, indefinite plural emblem, definite plural emblema)
- an emblem
ReferencesEdit
- “emblem” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
emblem n
DeclensionEdit
| Declension of emblem | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | emblem | emblemet | emblem | emblemen |
| Genitive | emblems | emblemets | emblems | emblemens |