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Emblem
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- 1 A representative symbol, such as a trademark, a badge or logo.
"The medical trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross."
- 2 special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc. wordnet
- 3 Something that 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."
- 4 a visible symbol representing an abstract idea wordnet
- 5 Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
"Broider'd the ground, more color'd than with stone Of costliest emblem"
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- 6 A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
"An Emblem is but a ſilent Parable:"
- 7 A picture placed on the field of the escutcheon.
"Near-synonym: charge"
- 1 To symbolize. obsolete, transitive
Etymology
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”). Doublet of emblema.
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”). Doublet of emblema.
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