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English
A badge.
Etymology
From Middle English badge , bagge , bage , bagy , from Anglo-Norman bage or Medieval Latin bagea , bagia ( “ sign, emblem ” ) , of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from Medieval Latin baga ( “ ring ” ) , from Old Saxon bāg , bōg ( “ ring, ornament ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *baugaz ( “ ring, bracelet, armband ” ) ; or possibly the Anglo-Norman word is derived from an earlier, unattested English word (compare Old English bēag ( “ ring, bracelet, collar, crown ” ) . Cognate with Scots bagie , badgie , bawgy ( “ badge ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
badge (plural badges )
A distinctive mark , token , sign , emblem or cognizance , worn on one’s clothing , as an insignia of some rank , or of the membership of an organization .
the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman
A small nameplate , identifying the wearer , and often giving additional information .
A card , sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip , granting access to a certain area .
Something characteristic ; a mark ; a token .
( obsolete , thieves' cant ) A brand on the hand of a thief, etc.
He has got his badge , and piked. ― He was branded on the hand, and is at liberty.
( nautical ) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel , containing a window or the representation of one.
( heraldry ) A distinctive mark worn by servants , retainers , and followers of royalty or nobility , who, being beneath the rank of gentlemen , have no right to armorial bearings .
( graphical user interface ) A small overlay on an icon that shows additional information about that item, such as the number of new alerts or messages.
( Internet , video games ) An icon or emblem awarded to a user for some achievement .
When you have checked in to the site from ten different cities, you unlock the Traveller badge .
( slang ) A police officer .
1995 , Martin Scorsese, Casino , spoken by actor (Robert De Niro):That's why every badge back home wanted to nail him.
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Derived terms
Descendants
→ Gulf Arabic: باجة ( bāja )
→ Japanese: バッジ ( bajji )
→ Korean: 배지 ( baeji )
Translations
distinctive mark
Albanian: emblemë (sq) f
Arabic: شَارَة f ( šāra )
Gulf Arabic: باجة f ( bāja )
Armenian: կրծքանշան (hy) ( krckʻanšan )
Azerbaijani: nişan (az) , rozet
Belarusian: значо́к m ( značók ) , знак (be) m ( znak )
Bulgarian: значка́ (bg) f ( značká )
Burmese: ရင်ထိုးတံဆိပ် (my) ( ranghtui:tamhcip ) , (please verify ) အဆောင်အယောင်တံဆိပ် ( a.hcaung-a.yaungtamhcip )
Catalan: xapa (ca) f , insígnia (ca) f , distintiu
Chinese:
Mandarin: 徽章 (zh) ( huīzhāng ) , 象徵 / 象征 (zh) ( xiàngzhēng ) , 徽號 / 徽号 (zh) ( huīhào ) , 吧唧 (zh) ( bājī )
Czech: odznak m
Danish: mærke n , emblem (da) n
Estonian: märk (et) , tunnus
Finnish: merkki (fi) , tunnus (fi) , arvomerkki
French: plaque (fr) f , insigne (fr) m , décoration (fr) f , macaron (fr) m
Georgian: ნიშანი (ka) ( nišani )
German: Abzeichen (de) n
Hindi: बैज (hi) ( baij )
Hungarian: jelvény (hu) , jelkép (hu) , embléma (hu)
Ido: insigno (io)
Italian: distintivo (it) , insegna (it) f
Japanese: バッジ (ja) ( bajji )
Kazakh: значок ( znaçok )
Korean: 배지 ( baeji )
Kyrgyz: значок (ky) ( znacok )
Latvian: emblēma f
Lithuanian: ženklelis m , ženkliukas m
Macedonian: значка f ( značka )
Malay: lencana (ms)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skilt (no) n , emblem
Persian:
Iranian Persian: نِشان (fa) ( nešân ) , نِشانِه (fa) ( nešâne ) , عَلامَت (fa) ( alâmat ) , آرْم (fa) ( ârm )
Plautdietsch: Spald f
Polish: odznaka (pl) f , blacha (pl) f ( colloquial, typically of a police badge )
Portuguese: distintivo (pt) m , crachá (pt) m
Romanian: distincție (ro) f , insignă (ro) f
Russian: значо́к (ru) m ( značók ) , (нагру́дный ) знак m ( (nagrúdnyj) znak ) , эмбле́ма (ru) f ( embléma ) , кока́рда (ru) f ( kokárda ) ( cockade ) , бля́ха (ru) f ( bljáxa ) ( on a belt )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: зна̏чка f
Roman: znȁčka (sh) f
Slovak: odznak m
Slovene: značka f
Spanish: insignia (es) f , pin (es) m , medalla (es) f , piocha (es) f , placa (es) f , distintivo (es) m , charola (es) f , chapa (es) f
Swahili: beji class n
Swedish: knapp (sv) , emblem (sv) , märke (sv)
Tagalog: tsapa
Tajik: нишон (tg) ( nišon ) , нишона ( nišona )
Thai: แหนบ (th) ( nɛ̀ɛp ) , สัญลักษณ์ (th) ( sǎn-yá-lák )
Turkish: nişan (tr) , rozet (tr)
Turkmen: nyşan
Ukrainian: значо́к m ( značók ) , знак m ( znak )
Urdu: عَلامَت f ( 'alāmat ) , بَیج ( baij ) , نِشان m ( niśān )
Uzbek: znachok (uz) , nishon (uz)
Vietnamese: huy hiệu (vi)
carved ornament on the stern of a vessel
Verb
badge (third-person singular simple present badges , present participle badging , simple past and past participle badged )
( transitive ) To mark or distinguish with a badge.
The television was badged as ‘GE ’, but wasn’t made by them.
( transitive ) To show a badge to.
He calmed down a lot when the policeman badged him.
( ambitransitive ) To enter a restricted area by showing one’s badge.
1981 , David Simon , Homicide , →ISBN , page 118 :Worden and James walk to the Courthouse , where they badge their way past sheriff’s deputies and take the elevator to the third floor.
2003 , Joseph Wambaugh, Fire Lover , page 146 :And Patterson didn’t hear that Jack Egger, the studio’s director of security, said he’d seen John Orr badge his way through the pedestrian gate sometime before 4:00 pm, when the fire was still raging,
2004 , Sergei Hoteko, On The Fringe Of History , page 135 :Our regional commissioner, his assistant commissioner and our district director, along with their wives, were hoofing it to the rotunda. Apparently they didn’t try and badge their way through.
2006 , David Pollino, Bill Pennington, Tony Bradley, Himanshu Dwivedi, Hacker’s challenge 3 , page 338 :Aaron badged into the data center and escorted Geoff inside the large room with its many blinking green lights.
Derived terms
Translations
to mark or distinguish with a badge
References
“badge ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam , 1913 , →OCLC .
The Manual of Heraldry , Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English badge .
Pronunciation
Noun
badge m (plural badges )
identity badge
Verb
badge
inflection of badger :
first / third-person singular present indicative / subjunctive
second-person singular imperative
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