EMBLEM


Meaning of EMBLEM in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

national

Originally, there was to be a space for a national emblem .

■ VERB

become

Mrs Chan had become the most visible emblem of Hong Kong's autonomy in the past 3 1 / 2 years.

Within the confines of the painting it becomes a silent emblem of protest, a reminder of political alternatives.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Scotland's emblem is the thistle.

The hammer and sickle is the emblem of the Communist Party.

The jacket had a tiny Olympic emblem on the pocket.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A stratagem I learnt early in my life was to hoard every emblem of success and destroy all evidence of failure.

Embroidered all over with gold and silver threads, it incorporates a Garter emblem .

However, they do not establish themselves as an emblem to the overall design.

In addition, a gun is an emblem of the male as hunter.

It was an exclusive circle of friends as well as an emblem of a time and place.

Part of this conquest involved reducing the complex and archaic Goddesses to emblems of particular qualities.

The family floral emblem included the Juniper.

The skyscrapers of Manhattan dazzled him as emblems of Western industrial progress.

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