Crossword clues for insignia
insignia
- Badges of office
- Armpatch, e.g.
- Emblem on a military uniform
- A badge worn to show official position
- Cabin sign I add displaying emblem
- Elected, one inside gains new badge of office
- Official marks popular gain and is made to look daft
- Paganini is to be played without 'pop' symbols
- Indications of office sin: gin-swilling one on one
- Distinguishing badge
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insignia \In*sig"ni*a\, n. pl. [L. insigne, pl. insignia, fr. insignis distinguished by a mark; pref. in- in + signum a mark, sign. See Ensign, Sign.]
Distinguishing marks of authority, office, or honor; badges; tokens; decorations; as, the insignia of royalty or of an order.
Typical and characteristic marks or signs, by which anything is known or distinguished; as, the insignia of a trade.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A patch or other object that indicates a person's official or military rank, or membership in a group or organization. 2 A symbol or token of personal power, status, or office, or of an official body of government or jurisdiction.
WordNet
n. a badge worn to show official position
Wikipedia
An insignia ( Latin: īnsignia, nominative plural of īnsigne, "emblem, token, symbol"), plural insignias, is a symbol or token of personal power, status or office, or of an official body of government or jurisdiction. An insignia is usually the emblem of a specific or general authority.
Insignia are representations of status or office, or of a body of government or jurisdiction.
Insignia may also refer to:
- Opel Insignia, a car
- MS Insignia, a cruise ship operated by Oceania Cruises
- Insignia Systems, Inc. a media services company
- Insignia trilogy, novels by S.J. Kincaid
:* Insignia (novel), the first in the trilogy
Usage examples of "insignia".
McDermott had removed his sheepskin jacket and I saw the insignia of the Army Medical Corps, the serpent of Aesculapius, on his battledress.
Perhaps, poor Drusenin was not above swaggering a little, belted in the gay uniform Russian officers loved to wear, to the confounding of the poor Aleut who looked on the pistols in belt, the cutlass dangling at heel, the bright shoulder straps and colored cuffs, as insignia of a power almighty.
His face was unfamiliar, but Allo recognized the insignia on his jacket.
As soon as the hull of the vessel, approximately spherical and a hundred meters in diameter, rose into view through the forcegate she recognized it as an advanced type of battlecraft, bearing the insignia of the planetary defense forces of Salutai.
In this way he contrasted with Cathartes, who always wore his dissertation ribbon and his various insignia.
Blazer with the light bar on top and with the insignia of the Cochise County Sheriff Department painted on the door.
The twelve vessels were of unique and eccentric designs, bearing exotic banners and ornate hull insignia.
They dragged him up on the platform where the colonel ripped off his insignia.
The ward sister informed Dunworthy grimly that she was going off-duty, and a much smaller and more cheerful blonde nurse, wearing the insignia of a student, came in to check the drips and look at the displays.
She gave to Eberhard the insignia of their royal ancestorssacred lance, scepter, golden torque, and crownand told him to take the insignia and give them to Duke Henry along with his allegiance.
Only two are known to exist, and these were worn as the insignia of their rank and position by the two old men in whose charge was placed the operation of the great engines which pump the artificial atmosphere to all parts of Mars from the huge atmosphere plant, the secret to whose mighty portals placed in my possession the ability to save from immediate extinction the life of a whole world.
Mitch to Fishman as if trying to decide who stood where on insignia before committing himself.
Three of the flags were Old Glories, the others were regimental flags carrying state badges or martial insignias.
The knife he picked was one of a row of an identical dozen, lying in the glass case in a jumbled mass of whistles, insignia rings and shoulder patches, brass bound clasp knives with five-inch snap-button blades and walnut handles that terminated in little handguards that the blades passed between in closing.
He was a tall, slender figure in a plain, dark nehru suit without insignia or decorations.