“emblems” is a form of
emblem
/ˈɛmbləm/ noun, verb
Forms emblems embleming emblemed
- noun A representative symbol, such as a trademark, a badge or logo. “The medical trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross.”
- noun 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.”
- noun Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
- noun A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.
- noun (heraldry) A picture placed on the field of the escutcheon.
- verb (obsolete, transitive) To symbolize.
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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.
Webster’s 1913
- noun Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface. [Obs.] Milton.
- noun 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. "His cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek." Shak.
- verb To represent by an emblem; to symbolize. [R.]
Etymology [F. emblème, L. emblema, -atis, that which is put in or on, inlaid work, fr. Gr. In, and Parable.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “emblem”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details