EGAVE

emblem

About 2.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A representative symbol, such as a trademark, a badge or logo.
    The medical trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
  4. noun A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
  5. noun A picture placed on the field of the escutcheon.
  6. verb To symbolize.

Similar words

labelling logotype logo marking slogan sign marked trademark label chapter

Often followed by

of and is for on in was books or

Word family

emblemed embleming emblems

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