Emblem Definition
ĕmbləm
emblems
noun
emblems
A sign, badge, or device.
Webster's New World
A visible symbol of a thing, idea, class of people, etc.; object or representation that stands for or suggests something else.
The cross is an emblem of Christianity.
Webster's New World
A picture with a motto or verses, allegorically suggesting some moral truth, etc.
Webster's New World
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.
Wiktionary
Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
Wiktionary
verb
To emblematize.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Emblem
Noun
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emblem
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emblemsOrigin of Emblem
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Middle English pictorial fable from Latin emblēma raised ornament from Greek embossed design from emballein to insert, set in en- in en–2 ballein to throw gwelə- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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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”).
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