emblem.
A representative symbol, such as a trademark, a badge or logo.
Meaning & usage
A representative symbol, such as a trademark, a badge or logo.
The medical trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross.
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.
Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
A picture placed on the field of the escutcheon.
Where this word comes from
From Old French embleme, from Latin emblēma (“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.
To symbolize.
Where this word comes from
From Old French embleme, from Latin emblēma (“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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