emblem
IPA: ˈɛmbɫʌm
noun
- A representative symbol, such as a trademark or logo.
- Something that represents a larger whole.
- Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
- A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To symbolize.
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Examples of "emblem" in Sentences
- "Navy" about this watch is the emblem from a Italian Naval Academy in Livorno.
- It may create an impression that the Red Cross emblem is part of the public domain.
- The Fascist emblem is a bundle of sticks bound together with an axe extending from the end denoting authority.
- A school's emblem is featured in the letterhead - and even on the card - and students are urged to activate their accounts quickly.
- The Maple Leaf as a land emblem is quite appropriate and correct but as a maritime nation at the present time ours should be the "sponge rampant."
- A single emblem is a type; the actual rites, incidents, and persons of the Old Testament were appointed types of truths afterwards to be revealed.
- The government today announced that it is changing its emblem from a Union Jack to a CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the government’s political stance.
- Lastly, her emblem is the Sistrum, and the sound of the Sistrum, according to Plutarch, was supposed to terrify and expel Typhon (the evil principle); just as in mediæval times the ringing of church-bells was supposed to scare Beelzebub and his crew.
- Most of the land masses and the overwhelming majority of the people of the world are in the Northern hemisphere-a fact recognized by the United Nations, whose emblem is a view of the Northern hemisphere seen as if you were looking straight down on it from the stratosphere.
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