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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
emblematic
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.
▪ It is not only a matter of those galleries buying great emblematic works of art.
▪ The central relationship in the novel between Serena and Stella is emblematic of the contrast between adaptation to convention and rebellion.
▪ The experience of these writers was seen as emblematic of the increased social mobility that characterized post-war Britain.
▪ The strangeness of the whole situation comes across very strongly, together with a certain emblematic quality.
▪ When politics invades religion, legality becomes merely emblematic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Emblematic

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; white is emblematic of purity. -- Em`blem*at"ic*al*ly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
emblematic

1640s, perhaps via French emblématique, as if from Latin *emblematicus, from emblema (see emblem). Related emblematically.

Wiktionary
emblematic

a. 1 Serving as, or relating to a symbol, emblem or illustration of a type 2 (rfdef: English)

WordNet
emblematic

  1. 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]

  2. being or serving as an illustration of a type; "the free discussion that is emblematic of democracy"; "an action exemplary of his conduct"; [syn: exemplary, typic]

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.