Meaning

1 senses

  1. (obsolete)To symbolize.

Examples

9 sentences

  1. The eagle is our national emblem.

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  2. The dove is an emblem of peace.

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  3. The note is embossed with the school emblem.

    deDer Bescheid hat eine Prägung mit dem Wappen der Schule. — Tamy

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  4. The royal emblem was engraved upon the invitation.

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  5. At certain moments he sees himself as an emblem of possibility to which all eyes have turned.

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Origin

From Old French embleme, from Latin emblēma (“raised ornaments on vessels, tessellated wor

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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Forms

emblems, embleming, emblemed, emblemed
Base formemblem · to emblem
3rd person singularemblems
Present participleembleming
Past simpleemblemed
Past participleemblemed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyemblem
he, she, itemblems

Past simpleLesson

all personsemblemed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave emblemed
he, she, ithas emblemed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill emblem

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
embezzleembezzlementembezzlerembitteremblematicembodimentC2embodyC2embolden
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