stigma
IPA: stˈɪgmʌ
noun
- A mark of infamy or disgrace.
- Discriminatory attitudes.
- A scar or birthmark.
- (Christianity, chiefly in the plural stigmata) A mark on the body corresponding to one of the wounds of the Crucifixion on Jesus' body, and sometimes reported to bleed periodically.
- (literary, figurative) An outward sign; an indication.
- (botany) The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.
- (medicine) A visible sign or characteristic of a disease.
- (typography) A ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, (Ϛ/ϛ).
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Examples of "stigma" in Sentences
- What is their stigma
- He is ashamed of stigma.
- He denies to carry stigma.
- His family never admitted that stigma.
- This was the removal of the 909 stigma.
- The style connects the stigma to the ovary.
- She bears the stigma for the rest of her life.
- The news dealt with the stigma of the President.
- The history of leprosy stigma is as old as the history of leprosy.
- Pollination is the movement of pollen from the anthers to the stigma.
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