# emblem
## English
### Etymology

From Old French embleme, from Latin emblema (“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.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛmbləm/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: em‧blem

### Noun

emblem (plural emblems)
* 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 Well, that Ends Well”, 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;
* 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)‎: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.
* Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
** 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →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
* 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:An Emblem is but a ſilent Parable:
* (heraldry) A picture placed on the field of the escutcheon.
    Hypernym: bearing
    Near-synonym: charge

#### Derived terms

* emblematic
* emblematical
* emblem book
* emblemize
* emblemless
* national emblem

#### Translations
### Verb

emblem (third-person singular simple present emblems, present participle embleming, simple past and past participle emblemed)
* (obsolete, transitive) To symbolize.

#### Further reading

* emblem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “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.

## Danish
### Noun

emblem n (singular definite emblemet, plural indefinite emblemer)
* emblem

#### Declension
### References

* “emblem” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From French emblème, from Latin emblema, from Ancient Greek ἔμβλημα (émblēma, “an insertion”).

### Noun

emblem n (definite singular emblemet, indefinite plural emblem or emblemer, definite plural emblema or emblemene)
* an emblem

### References

* “emblem” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “emblem” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From French emblème, from Latin emblema, from Ancient Greek ἔμβλημα (émblēma).

### Noun

emblem n (definite singular emblemet, indefinite plural emblem, definite plural emblema)
* an emblem

### References

* “emblem” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Romanian
### Noun

emblem n (plural embleme)
* Obsolete form of emblemă.

#### Declension
### References

* emblem in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

## Swedish
### Noun

emblem n
* emblem

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | emblem | emblems |
| singular | definite | emblemet | emblemets |
| plural | indefinite | emblem | emblems |
| plural | definite | emblemen | emblemens |

### References

* emblem in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* emblem in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* emblem in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)