From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Designemblemem‧blem /ˈembləm/ noun [countable]1AVDa picture, shape, or object that is used to represent a country, organization etc → logoemblem ofThe national emblem of Canada is a maple leaf.2SIGN/SYMBOLsomething that represents an idea, principle, or situationSYN symbolemblem ofExpensive cars are seen as an emblem of success.Examples from the Corpusemblem• However, they do not establish themselves as an emblem to the overall design.• It was an exclusivecircle of friends as well as an emblem of a time and place.• The skyscrapers of Manhattan dazzled him as emblems of Westernindustrialprogress.• A stratagem I learnt early in my life was to hoard every emblem of success and destroy all evidence of failure.• The family floralemblem included the Juniper.• Embroidered all over with gold and silverthreads, it incorporates a Garteremblem.• The jacket had a tinyOlympicemblem on the pocket.• Scotland's emblem is the thistle.• The hammer and sickle is the emblem of the Communist Party.• Part of this conquest involved reducing the complex and archaic Goddesses to emblems of particular qualities.emblem of• Many Californians view the mountainlion as an emblem of the state's vanishingwilderness.• The hammer and sickle is the emblem of the Communist Party.Originemblem(1400-1500)Latinemblema"design set into a surface", from Greekemballein"to put in"