emblem

See also: Emblem and emblém

EnglishEdit

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”).

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.
- Shakespeare
  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 [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.

representative symbol

Afrikaans: embleem
Albanian: simbol (sq), stemë (sq)
Arabic: شِعَار‎ (ar) m (šiʿār), رَمْز‎ (ar) m (ramz)
Armenian: խորհրդանիշ (hy) (xorhrdaniš)
Azerbaijani: emblem, nişan (az), rəmz
Basque: ikur
Belarusian: эмбле́ма f (embljéma)
Bulgarian: ембле́ма (bg) f (embléma)
Catalan: emblema (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 象徵 (zh), 象征 (zh) (xiàngzhēng), 象徵性 (zh), 象征性 (zh) (xiàngzhēngxìng)
Czech: emblém m, znak (cs) m
Danish: emblem n
Dutch: embleem (nl) n
Esperanto: emblemo
Estonian: embleem, võrdkuju
Finnish: tunnus (fi), embleemi (fi)
French: emblème (fr) m
Galician: emblema m
Georgian: ემბლემა (emblema), სიმბოლო (simbolo)
German: Emblem (de) n
Greek: έμβλημα (el) n (émvlima)
Hebrew: סִימָן‎ (he) m (simán)
Hungarian: embléma (hu), jelkép (hu)
Icelandic: tákn (is) n
Ido: emblemo (io)
Indonesian: lambang (id)
Italian: emblema (it) m, raffigurazione (it) f, simbolo (it) m
Japanese: 表号 (ひょうごう, hyōgō), エンブレム (enburemu), 象徴 (ja) (しょうちょう, shōchō)
Kazakh: эмблема (émblema), рәміз (kk) (rämiz)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can

representation of a larger whole

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

emblem n (singular definite emblemet, plural indefinite emblemer)

Declension of emblem