Emblem



GRE TOEFL

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.象征, 标志
• ［英］ n.象征, 标志 ( a device, symbol, or figure used as an identifying mark)
• ［例］ The national emblem of England is a rose.

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: Middle English, from Latin emblema inlaid work, from Greek emblēmat-, emblēma, from emballein to insert, from en- + ballein to throw — more at devil
• Date: 15th century
• 1. a picture with a motto or set of verses intended as a moral lesson
• 2. an object or the figure of an object symbolizing and suggesting another object or an idea
• 3.
  • a. a symbolic object used as a heraldic device
  • b. a device, symbol, or figure adopted and used as an identifying mark

II. transitive verb

• Date: 1584
• emblematize

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