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emblematic
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. serving as a visible symbol for something abstract; "a crown is emblematic of royalty"; "the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish" [syn: emblematical , symbolic , symbolical ] being or serving as an illustration ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But the murrelet and the owl are merely emblematic of the effects of clear-cutting the remaining Ancient Forest of the Westside. ▪ Grown-up in his own fisherman's kingdom, his cruelty brands him an emblematic villain. ▪ ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emblematic \Em`blem*at"ic\, Emblematical \Em`blem*at"ic*al\, a. Pertaining to, containing, or consisting in, an emblem; symbolic; typically representative; representing as an emblem; as, emblematic language or ornaments; a crown is emblematic of royalty; ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Serving as, or relating to a symbol, emblem or illustration of a type 2 (rfdef: English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, perhaps via French emblématique , as if from Latin *emblematicus , from emblema (see emblem ). Related emblematically .
Usage examples of emblematic.
I am less concerned with his exactness as an image than with the possibilities of an emblematic and Cerberean mode of defining satire.
Against an urgent sky, with dull thunder pounding over the gulf, this washwork streaming in the wind can be an emblematic and touching thing.
It was emblematic of its clannishness that foreigners who sought to become citizens had to be approved by both the parliament and the prince.