Definitions for emblem

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emblem em·blem

Spelling: [em-bluh m]

IPA: /ˈɛm bləm/

Emblem is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in emblem (beelmm).

Definitions for emblem

noun

1. an object or its representation, symbolizing a quality, state, class of persons, etc.; symbol:
2. a sign, design, or figure that identifies or represents something:
3. an allegorical picture, often inscribed with a motto supplemental to the visual image with which it forms a single unit of meaning.
4. Obsolete. an inlaid or tessellated ornament.

verb (used with object)

1. to represent with an emblem.

Origin of emblem

1400-50; late Middle English Latin emblēma inlaid or mosaic work Greek émblēma something put on, equivalent to em- em-² + blêma s

Examples for emblem

The Pahonia, emblem of the Belarusian nation drawn from the insignia of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, is banned under Lukashenko.

It is as an emblem of remembrance that rosemary is most frequently used by the old poets.

The worth of the thing signified must vindicate our taste for the emblem.

Prabhakaran had come to personify the movement, and his end, so wretched, became the emblem of Tamil defeat and Sinhalese triumph.

In 2006, when I was a visiting professor at Marquette, I found an envelope with the Esquire emblem on it in my campus mailbox.

The plane in which we travelled bore the emblem of the World Patrol.

But it's also more--it's an emblem of how much worse we are as a society than we used to be.

This was the emblem of King Richard II, who was saved from killing a white deer, which in British legend is terribly bad luck.

Forever it should be the emblem of crime and disaster beneath its shadow.

Burned into his bare flesh was the emblem of their legendary sun-god.