Emblem
['embləm] or ['ɛmbləm]
Definition
(noun.) special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc..
(noun.) a visible symbol representing an abstract idea.
Typed by Bush--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verse, or the like, intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
(v. t.) To represent by an emblem; to symbolize.
Typist: Remington
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Type, symbol, sign, representation, token, badge, mark, device, cognizance, allusive figure.
Typed by Gilda
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Device, cognizance, sign, token, symbol, representation, type, badge, mark
ANT:Disguise, decoy, incognito, domino, blind, ruse
Editor: Olaf
Definition
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.
Typed by Ada
Examples
- Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The blue eyes of my angelic girl were fixed on this sweet emblem of herself: How the light palpitates, she said, which is that star's life. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Why is the Thistle the Emblem of Scotland? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- And so the Winged Lion of St. Mark, with the open Bible under his paw, is a favorite emblem in the grand old city. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- What to him the sanctity of the star which the Son of God has hallowed as his own emblem? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She seemed the emblem of my past life; and here I was now to array myself to meet, the dread, but adored, type of my unknown future day. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Well, this dead man had some Catholic emblem round his neck, and that, along with his colour, made me think he was from the South. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- A bad earthquake destroys our oldest associations; the earth, the very emblem of solidity, has moved beneath our feet like a thin crust over a flui d. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Under this respectable emblem stood a cross, stated to be the mark of Gurth, the son of Beowulph. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- A cloak (on a woman's back) is an emblem of charity--it covers a multitude of sins. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- This key, you must know, Mr Maurice, is the emblem of sovereignty in Melnos—the sceptre of the island! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- To this distressful emblem of a great distress that had long been growing worse, and was not at its worst, a woman was kneeling. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Birds began singing in brake and copse: birds were faithful to their mates; birds were emblems of love. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I suppose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St. John. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Checker: Lola