FromOld Frenchembleme, fromLatinemblema(“raised ornaments on vessels, tessellated work, mosaic”), fromAncient Greekἔμβλημα(émblēma,“an insertion”), fromἐμβάλλειν(embállein,“to put in, to lay on”).Doublet ofemblema.
- IPA(key): /ˈɛmbləm/
- Hyphenation:em‧blem
emblem (pluralemblems)
- Arepresentativesymbol, such as atrademark, abadge orlogo.
- Synonyms:symbol,token,ensign
The medical trucks were emblazoned with theemblem of theRed Cross.
c.1604–1605 (date written),William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene i],page235:His ſicatrice, with anEmbleme of warre, heere on his ſiniſter cheeke;
- Something thatrepresents a larger whole.
- Coordinate terms:microcosm,model;exemplar,example,representative;sample,specimen,sampler
The rampant poverty in the ethnic slums was just anemblem 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 […] ”, inThe 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 ofPistorius the paragon, theemblem, the trailblazer.
- Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
1667,John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, inParadise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […];[a]nd by Robert Boulter […];[a]nd Matthias Walker, […],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873,→OCLC:Broider'd the ground, more color'd than with stone
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- Apicture accompanied with amotto, a set ofverses, etc. intended as amorallesson ormeditation.
1718,Francis Quarles,Emblems, divine and moral ; together with Hieroglyphicks of the life of man[2]:AnEmblem is but a ſilent Parable:
- (heraldry) A picture placed on thefield of theescutcheon.
- Hypernym:bearing
- Near-synonym:charge
representative symbol
- Afrikaans:embleem
- Albanian:simbol (sq),stemë (sq)
- Arabic:شِعَار (ar) m(šiʕār),رَمْز (ar) m(ramz)
- Armenian:խորհրդանիշ (hy)(xorhrdaniš)
- Azerbaijani:emblem,nişan (az),rəmz
- Basque:ikur
- Belarusian:эмбле́ма f(embljéma)
- Bulgarian:ембле́ма (bg) f(embléma)
- Burmese:အမှတ်တံဆိပ် (my)(a.hmattamhcip)
- Catalan:emblema (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:象徵 /象征 (zh)(xiàngzhēng),象徵性 /象征性 (zh)(xiàngzhēngxìng)
- Czech:emblém m,znak (cs) m
- Danish:emblem (da) 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)
- Hindi:प्रतीक (hi) m(pratīk),चिह्न (hi) m(cihna),चिन्ह (hi) m(cinha)
- 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 (ja)(enburemu),象徴 (ja)(しょうちょう, shōchō)
- Kazakh:эмблема(émblema),танымбелгі(tanymbelgı)
- Khmer:please add this translation if you can
- Korean:상징(象徵) (ko)(sangjing),엠블럼(embeulleom)
- Kyrgyz:эмблема (ky)(emblema),белги (ky)(belgi)
- Lao:ເຄື່ອງຫມາຍ(khư̄ang māi),ສັນຍາລັກ (lo)(san nyā lak)
- Latin:insigne (la) n
- Latvian:emblēma f
- Lithuanian:emblema f
- Macedonian:амблем m(amblem)
- Malay:lambang (ms)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic:эмблем(emblem),сүлд тэмдэг(süld temdeg)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:emblem n
- Nynorsk:emblem n
- Persian:نماد (fa)(namâd),نشان (fa)(nešân),علامت (fa)('alâmat)
- Polish:godło (pl) n,emblemat (pl) m
- Portuguese:emblema (pt) m
- Romanian:emblemă (ro) f
- Russian:эмбле́ма (ru) f(embléma)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:а̀мбле̄м m
- Roman:àmblēm (sh) m
- Slovak:znak m,odznak m
- Slovene:emblem m,znak (sl) m,simbol (sl) m
- Spanish:emblema (es) m
- Swedish:emblem (sv) n
- Tagalog:sagisag (tl),simbulo
- Tajik:нишона(nišona),нишон (tg)(nišon),аломат (tg)(alomat),тамға(tamġa)
- Thai:เครื่องหมาย (th)(krʉ̂ʉang-mǎai),สัญลักษณ์ (th)(sǎn-yá-lák)
- Turkish:belirtke (tr),amblem (tr)
- Turkmen:emblema,nyşan
- Ukrainian:ембле́ма f(embléma)
- Urdu:چنه m(cinh),علامت f('alāmat)
- Uzbek:emblema (uz),ramz (uz),belgi (uz),nishon (uz)
- Vietnamese:biểu tượng (vi)
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representation of a larger whole
emblem (third-person singular simple presentemblems,present participleembleming,simple past and past participleemblemed)
- (obsolete, transitive) Tosymbolize.
emblem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia- “emblem”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “emblem”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
emblem n (singular definiteemblemet,plural indefiniteemblemer)
- emblem
FromFrenchemblème, fromLatinemblema, fromAncient Greekἔμβλημα(émblēma,“an insertion”).
emblem n (definite singularemblemet,indefinite pluralemblemoremblemer,definite pluralemblemaoremblemene)
- anemblem
FromFrenchemblème, fromLatinemblema, fromAncient Greekἔμβλημα(émblēma).
emblem n (definite singularemblemet,indefinite pluralemblem,definite pluralemblema)
- anemblem
emblem n (pluralembleme)
- obsolete form ofemblemă
- emblem in Academia Română,Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010.→ISBN
emblem n
- emblem
