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emblem

noun
/ˈɛmbləm/

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from ἔμβλημα
  2. derived from emblēma
  3. derived from embleme

Definitions

  1. A representative symbol, such as a trademark, a badge or logo.

    • The medical trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross.
    • His ſicatrice, with an Embleme of warre, heere on his ſiniſter cheeke;

  2. 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.
    • 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.

  3. Inlay

    Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.

    • Broider'd the ground, more color'd than with stone Of costliest emblem
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or…

      A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.

      • An Emblem is but a ſilent Parable:

    2. A picture placed on the field of the escutcheon.

      • Near-synonym: charge

    3. To symbolize.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at emblem. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at emblem. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at emblem

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA