Badge
[bædʒ]
Definition
(noun.) any feature that is regarded as a sign of status (a particular power or quality or rank); 'wearing a tie was regarded as a badge of respectability'.
(noun.) an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.); 'they checked everyone's badge before letting them in'.
(verb.) put a badge on; 'The workers here must be badged'.
Inputed by Carmela--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.
(n.) Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
(n.) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
(v. t.) To mark or distinguish with a badge.
Edited by Babbage
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mark of distinction, token of office, sign of authority.
Typist: Randall
Definition
n. a mark or sign by which a person or object is known or distinguished.
Inputed by Hahn
Examples
- I think Henrique, now, has a keener sense of the beauty of truth, from seeing lying and deception the universal badge of slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Soon after the Revolution, therefore, it was abolished as a badge of slavery. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Show that badge conspicuous, or I'll report you! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Well, some of the English kings used to wear it in their helmets as a badge, so that is how they got the name of Plantagenet. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Every tax, however, is, to the person who pays it, a badge, not of slavery, but of liberty. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The monopoly is the principal badge of their dependency, and it is the sole fruit which has hitherto been gathered from that dependency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The private coach had for long been a badge of station. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- At seven o'clock, the four members ascended to the clubroom, tied their badges round their heads, and took their seats with great solemnity. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Those republics encouraged the acquisition of those exercises, by bestowing little premiums and badges of distinction upon those who excelled in them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is probably upon this account that poll-taxes of all kinds have often been represented as badges of slavery. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Editor: Natasha