emblem

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A representative symbol, such as a trademark, a badge or logo.
    — The medical trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross.
  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.
  3. 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. 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:
  5. A picture placed on the field of the escutcheon.
    — Near-synonym: charge
动词 v.
  1. To symbolize. obsolete,transitive

词形变化

emblems plural emblems present,singular,third-person embleming participle,present emblemed participle,past emblemed past

词汇关系

衍生词
emblematic emblematical emblematist emblem book emblemize emblemless national emblem

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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