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badge
[ baj ]
noun
- a special or distinctive mark, token, or device worn as a sign of allegiance, membership, authority, achievement, etc.:
a police badge;
a merit badge.
- any emblem, token, or distinctive mark:
He thinks rich people buy art mainly as a badge of their sophistication and success.
- a card bearing identifying information, as one's name, symbol or place of employment, or academic affiliation, and often worn pinned to one's clothing.
- Digital Technology. digital badge ( def ).
verb (used with object)
- to furnish or mark with a badge.
badge
/ bædʒ /
noun
- a distinguishing emblem or mark worn to signify membership, employment, achievement, etc
- any revealing feature or mark
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Other Words From
- badgeless adjective
- un·badged adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
These days, to be featured by Travel Noire on Instagram is like a badge of honor for many black millennial travelers.
Let Jourdan Dunn be the first of many—not an island, or badge of self-congratulation.
In fact, Clark fell back first from her blows, losing his cap, tie, and badge in the melee.
It denotes the person that puts on the badge, puts on the blue uniform, and goes into the streets to put their life at risk.
In the West Bank, serving time in Israeli jails is a badge of honor.
The badge of the order was a ribbon, striped black, white and yellow, and the device something like an icicle.
The string of pearls was coiled up in the midst of the roll of soiled muslin and the badge was pinned to one of the folds.
He stooped to pick up the turban and his eye fell on the regimental device of the metal badge.
It was then the badge of infamy and sign of shame—the punishment of the basest of slaves and the vilest of malefactors.
On leaving the church, some young people put on tricolor cockades, and this badge was soon common in the streets.
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