Definitions for emblem
ˈɛm bləmem·blem

Princeton's WordNet(3.60 / 5 votes)Rate this definition:

1. emblem(noun)

   special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc.

2. emblem, allegory(noun)

   a visible symbol representing an abstract idea

Wiktionary(2.25 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. emblem(Noun)

   A representative symbol, such as a trademark or logo.

   The trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross and were not supposed to be targeted.

   Etymology: From embleme, from emblema, from ἔμβλημα, from ἔμβάλλειν.

2. emblem(Noun)

   Something which 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.

   Etymology: From embleme, from emblema, from ἔμβλημα, from ἔμβάλλειν.

Webster Dictionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Emblem(noun)

   inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface

2. Emblem(noun)

   a visible sign of an idea; an object, or the figure of an object, symbolizing and suggesting another object, or an idea, by natural aptness or by association; a figurative representation; a typical designation; a symbol; as, a balance is an emblem of justice; a scepter, the emblem of sovereignty or power; a circle, the emblem of eternity

3. Emblem(noun)

   a picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation

4. Emblem(verb)

   to represent by an emblem; to symbolize

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Emblem

   An emblem is an abstract or representational pictorial image that represents a concept, like a moral truth, or an allegory, or a person, like a king or saint.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Emblem

   em′blem, n. a picture representing to the mind something different from itself: a type or symbol: (Milton) an inlaid ornament.—v.t. to symbolise.—n. Emblē′ma, an inlaid ornament:—pl. Emblē′mata.—adjs. Emblemat′ic, -al, pertaining to or containing emblems: symbolical: representing.—adv. Emblemat′ically.—v.t. Emblem′atise, Em′blemise, to represent by an emblem:—pr.p. emblem′atīsing; pa.p. emblem′atīsed.—n. Emblem′atist, a writer or inventor of emblems. [L. emblēma—Gr. em (=en), in, ballein, to cast.]

How to pronounce emblem?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of emblem in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of emblem in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of emblem in a Sentence

1. Anne Louise Germaine de Staël:

   Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

2. Donald Trump:

   That was Carter's emblem.

3. George Bernard Shaw:

   Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

4. Maxim Behar:

   The one-time ubiquitous emblem of classic PR, the press release, has technically been dead for a while now. To be a bit more precise, His Majesty the Press Release has been dying - a relatively slow death, but a death, nonetheless. And there is no coming back. Now we are in the afterlife, thanks to the social media revolution.

5. Riccardo Tisci:

   ...The Victorian era (was) a time in Britain for great change and progress, an era that has always inspired me and my work, (Burberry) chose to present his company with an emblem of a knight on a horse, but for his family crest, he instead chose a unicorn. Thomas Burberry was a daring innovator but also a romantic and a dreamer.

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