emblem

A picture or design that represents a person, group, or organization.

• The club's emblem is a lion.
• Their jackets carry the school emblem.
• Which national emblems can you recognize?

Similar words: symbol, badge, logo

Common phrases: a national emblem, a club emblem, a school emblem

Something that stands for a wider idea, situation, or group.

• The dove is an emblem of peace.
• That empty factory became an emblem of the town's decline.
• For her, the garden was an emblem of renewal.

How to use it: an emblem of something (The rebuilt bridge became an emblem of hope.)

Similar words: symbol, representation

Common phrases: an emblem of hope, an emblem of freedom, an emblem of failure

A picture or shape shown on the shield in a coat of arms.

• The shield bears a lion emblem.
• Three emblems appear on the blue field.
• The family chose an eagle as its heraldic emblem.

Similar words: charge

Common phrases: a heraldic emblem, a lion emblem, a shield emblem