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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛmbləm/
• ハイフネーション: em‧blem

名詞

emblem (複数形 emblems)

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

   Synonyms: symbol, token

   The medical trucks were emblazoned with the emblem of the Red Cross.

   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 235:

     His ſicatrice, with an Embleme of warre, heere on his ſiniſter cheeke;

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.

   • 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities […] ”, 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 Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.

3. Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     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.
   • 1718, Francis Quarles, Emblems, divine and moral ; together with Hieroglyphicks of the life of man‎^[2]:

     An Emblem is but a ſilent Parable:

派生語

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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “emblem”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.