un-badged

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 considered a slide rule as the badge of an engineering student.

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)

to furnish or mark with a badge.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English bag(g)e < ?

Related forms

badge·less, adjective

un·badged, adjective

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

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badge (bædʒ)

—n
1.	a distinguishing emblem or mark worn to signify membership, employment, achievement, etc
2.	any revealing feature or mark

[C14: from Norman French bage; related to Anglo-Latin bagia]

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Word Origin & History

badge

mid-14c., perhaps from Anglo-Fr. bage or from Anglo-L. bagis, pl. of bagia "emblem," all of unknown origin.

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