• IPA: /ˈɛmbləm/

emblem (plural emblems)

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

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

   • c. 1604–1605, William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i]:

     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.

3. Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
4. A picture accompanied with a motto, a set of verses, etc. intended as a moral lesson or meditation.

• symbol
• token (to betoken)

• emblematic
• emblematical

• French: emblème
• German: Emblem
• Italian: emblema, raffigurazione, simbolo
• Portuguese: emblema
• Russian: эмбле́ма
• Spanish: emblema

emblem (emblems, present participle embleming; past and past participle emblemed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To symbolize.