emblemとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛmbləm/

名詞

emblem (複数形 emblems)

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

   The trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross and were not supposed to be targeted.

   • Shakespeare

     His cicatrice, an emblem of war, here on his sinister cheek.

2. Something which 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.

   • 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)‎^[1]:

     Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.

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

   (Can we find かつ add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

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

同意語

• symbol
• token (to betoken)

関連する語

• emblematic
• emblematical

動詞

emblem (三人称単数 現在形 emblems, 現在分詞 embleming, 過去形および過去分詞形 emblemed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To symbolize.

Further reading

• emblem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• emblem in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911