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1.	a special or distinctive mark, token, or device worn as a sign of allegiance, membership, authority, achievement, etc.: a police badge; a merit badge.

2.	any emblem, token, or distinctive mark: He considered a slide rule as the badge of an engineering student.

3.	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.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to furnish or mark with a badge.

Origin:
1300–50; ME bag(g)e < ?

Related forms:

badgeless, adjective

Synonyms:
1. insignia, shield, seal; hallmark, earmark.

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badge (bāj)

1. A device or emblem worn as an insignia of rank, office, or membership in an organization.
2. An emblem given as an award or honor.
A characteristic mark. See Synonyms at sign.

[Middle English bagge, from Norman French bage.]
badge v.

Badge

Badge\, n. [LL. bagea, bagia, sign, prob. of German origin; cf. AS. be['a]g, be['a]h, bracelet, collar, crown, OS b?g- in comp., AS. b?gan to bow, bend, G. biegen. See Bow to bend.]

1. A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman. "Tax gatherers, recognized by their official badges. " --Prescott.

2. Something characteristic; a mark; a token.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. --Shak.

3. (Naut.) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.

Badge

Badge\, v. t. To mark or distinguish with a badge.

Language Translation for : badge

Spanish: insignia, distintivo,

German: das Abzeichen,

Japanese: 記章

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badge

c.1350, perhaps from Anglo-Fr. bage, or Anglo-L. bagis, pl. of bagia "emblem," origin unknown.