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English
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɛmbləm/
- Hyphenation: em‧blem
Noun
emblem (plural emblems)
- A representative symbol, such as a trademark or logo.
- Synonyms: symbol, token
The medical trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross.
c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 235:His ſicatrice, with an Embleme of warre, heere on his ſiniſter cheeke;
- 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.
2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities ”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
- Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:Broider'd the ground, more color'd than with stone
Of costliest emblem
- A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
1718, Francis Quarles, Emblems, divine and moral ; together with Hieroglyphicks of the life of man:An Emblem is but a ſilent Parable:
Derived terms
Translations
representative symbol
- Afrikaans: embleem
- Albanian: simbol (sq), stemë (sq)
- Arabic: شِعَار (ar) m (šiʕār), رَمْز (ar) m (ramz)
- Armenian: խորհրդանիշ (hy) (xorhrdaniš)
- Azerbaijani: emblem, nişan (az), rəmz
- Basque: ikur
- Belarusian: эмбле́ма f (embljéma)
- Bulgarian: ембле́ма (bg) f (embléma)
- Burmese: အမှတ်တံဆိပ် (my) (a.hmattamhcip)
- Catalan: emblema (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 象徵/象征 (zh) (xiàngzhēng), 象徵性/象征性 (zh) (xiàngzhēngxìng)
- Czech: emblém m, znak (cs) m
- Danish: emblem (da) n
- Dutch: embleem (nl) n
- Esperanto: emblemo
- Estonian: embleem, võrdkuju
- Finnish: tunnus (fi), embleemi (fi)
- French: emblème (fr) m
- Galician: emblema m
- Georgian: ემბლემა (emblema), სიმბოლო (simbolo)
- German: Emblem (de) n
- Greek: έμβλημα (el) n (émvlima)
- Hebrew: סִימָן (he) m (simán)
- Hindi: प्रतीक (hi) m (pratīk), चिह्न (hi) m (cihna), चिन्ह (hi) m (cinha)
- Hungarian: embléma (hu), jelkép (hu)
- Icelandic: tákn (is) n
- Ido: emblemo (io)
- Indonesian: lambang (id)
- Italian: emblema (it) m, raffigurazione (it) f, simbolo (it) m
- Japanese: 表号 (ひょうごう, hyōgō), エンブレム (enburemu), 象徴 (ja) (しょうちょう, shōchō)
- Kazakh: эмблема (émblema), танымбелгі (tanymbelgı)
- Khmer: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: 상징(象徵) (ko) (sangjing)
- Kyrgyz: эмблема (ky) (emblema), белги (ky) (belgi)
- Lao: ເຄື່ອງຫມາຍ (khư̄ang māi), ສັນຍາລັກ (lo) (san nyā lak)
- Latin: insigne (la) n
- Latvian: emblēma f
- Lithuanian: emblema f
- Macedonian: амблем m (amblem)
- Malay: lambang (ms)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: эмблем (emblem), сүлд тэмдэг (süld temdeg)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: emblem n
- Nynorsk: emblem n
- Persian: نماد (fa) (namâd), نشان (fa) (nešân), علامت (fa) ('alâmat)
- Polish: godło (pl) n, emblemat (pl) m
- Portuguese: emblema (pt) m
- Romanian: emblemă (ro) f
- Russian: эмбле́ма (ru) f (embléma)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: а̀мбле̄м m
- Roman: àmblēm (sh) m
- Slovak: znak m, odznak m
- Slovene: emblem m, znak (sl) m, simbol (sl) m
- Spanish: emblema (es) m
- Swedish: emblem (sv) n
- Tagalog: sagisag (tl), simbulo
- Tajik: нишона (nišona), нишон (tg) (nišon), аломат (tg) (alomat), тамға (tamġa)
- Thai: เครื่องหมาย (th) (krʉ̂ʉang-mǎai), สัญลักษณ์ (th) (sǎn-yá-lák)
- Turkish: belirtke (tr), amblem (tr)
- Turkmen: emblema, nyşan
- Ukrainian: ембле́ма f (embléma)
- Urdu: چنه m (cinh), علامت f ('alāmat)
- Uzbek: emblema (uz), ramz (uz), belgi (uz), nishon (uz)
- Vietnamese: biểu tượng (vi)
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representation of a larger whole
Verb
emblem (third-person singular simple present emblems, present participle embleming, simple past and past participle emblemed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To symbolize.
Further reading
- “emblem”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “emblem”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Danish
Noun
emblem n (singular definite emblemet, plural indefinite emblemer)
- emblem
Declension
References
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From French emblème, from Latin emblema, from Ancient Greek ἔμβλημα (émblēma, “an insertion”).
Noun
emblem n (definite singular emblemet, indefinite plural emblem or emblemer, definite plural emblema or emblemene)
- an emblem
References
- “emblem” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “emblem” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From French emblème, from Latin emblema, from Ancient Greek ἔμβλημα (émblēma).
Noun
emblem n (definite singular emblemet, indefinite plural emblem, definite plural emblema)
- an emblem
References
Romanian
Noun
emblem n (plural embleme)
- Obsolete form of emblemă.
Declension
References
- emblem in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
Swedish
Noun
emblem n
- emblem
Declension
References