Crossword clues for medal
medal
- Silver Star, e.g
- Prize for an Olympian
- Olympic Games prize
- Olympian award
- Navy Cross, e.g
- It may be worn on the chest
- Hero's bestowal
- Good Conduct, for one
- Gold, for one
- Commemorative item
- Bravery decoration
- Athlete's pursuit
- Wizard's gift to the lion
- Win an Olympics prize
- Wartime award
- Usually wearable award
- Track and field goal
- Token of success
- The Purple Heart, for one
- The Donnas' is "Gold"
- The ______ of Military Valour
- Symbol of valor
- Succeed at the Olympics
- Soldier's decoration
- Silver Star
- Silver Star or Purple Heart
- Reward for a hero
- Religious item
- Recognition of achievement
- Purple Heart, for example
- Purple Heart
- Pulitzer Prize bestowal
- Prize made of gold, say
- Presidential ___ of Freedom
- Podium handout
- Pinned prize
- Olympic athlete's quest
- Olympic athlete's prize
- OlympianÂ's prize
- Olympian's objective
- Olympian's hardware
- Olympian prize
- Nobel Prize presentation
- Necklace-y prize for an Olympic winner
- Navy Cross or Silver Star
- Many Olympians try to take a bite out of it
- Make it to the podium
- Lamed (anag)
- It proves Olympic success
- Gold ___ (brand of flour)
- Goal for Phelps
- Get silver, maybe
- Get gold, e.g
- George Cross, for one
- Engraved honor
- Donnas "Gold ___"
- Do well at the Olympics
- Distinguished Service Cross, e.g
- Decoration for bravery
- D.S.C., for one
- D.F.C., for one
- Curling prize, e.g
- Croix de Guerre, e.g
- Cowardly Lion's acquisition
- Cowardly Lion's "Courage" award
- Competitor's award
- Competition prize
- Competition carrot
- Common award
- Chest award
- Badge of honour
- Award on a chest
- Award for merit
- Award for bravery
- Award for an Olympic champion
- A gong
- A gold one is for first place
- Olympic first prize
- Purple Heart, e.g.
- Silver Star, e.g.
- Take first, second or third, in the Olympics
- Veteran's pride
- Cross, of a sort
- Olympian's prize
- Chest display
- Olympic success
- Olympian's quest
- Cross, maybe
- Get bronze, say
- Olympic award
- Chest adornment
- Hero's pride
- ___ ceremony
- Olympics prize
- Do well in the Olympics
- Ceremonial presentation
- There might be one on a hero
- Uniform decoration
- Cross you wouldn't mind bearing?
- Place first, second or third, say
- It's an honor
- Make the podium
- Olympian's achievement
- Gold ___ flour
- Olympics success
- Finish in the top three, in the Olympics
- Finish better than fourth
- An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
- Decoration of honor
- Chest ornament
- Award variety
- Award for Retton
- Good Conduct award
- Kind of play, in golf
- Gold, silver or bronze object
- Military award
- Olympic bronze, e.g.
- Purple Heart, for one
- Hero's award
- What 5 Across is
- Cellini creation
- Olympics reward
- Neckwear for an Olympic winner
- Military chest wear
- Navy Cross, e.g.
- Decoration for a G.I.
- One of Spitz's six
- By the ears, stick your nose in something round your neck!
- Barbie perhaps receiving doll's first award
- Honour duke in middle of dinner perhaps
- Daughter interrupting dinner gong
- Award for, eg, bravery
- Mint product
- Olympics award
- Bravery award
- Finish in the top three
- Olympic prize
- Military decoration
- Purple Heart, e.g
- Athletic award
- Olympian's goal
- Hero's reward
- Olympian's award
- Bronze, e.g
- Reward for bravery
- Gold or silver, e.g
- Commemorative piece
- Badge of honor
- ____ of Honor
- Symbol of bravery
- Olympic quest
- It may be stuck to one's chest
- Bravery badge
- Blue ribbon
- Victoria Cross, e.g
- Silver Star, for one
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Medal \Med"al\, n. [F. m['e]daille, It. medaglia, fr. L. metallum metal, through (assumed) LL. metalleus made of metal. See Metal, and cf. Mail a piece of money.] A piece of metal in the form of a coin, struck with a device, and intended to preserve the remembrance of a notable event or an illustrious person, or to serve as a reward.
Medal \Med"al\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Medaled, or Medalled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Medaling or Medalling.]
To honor or reward with a medal. ``Medaled by the king.''
--Thackeray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1845, "stamped onto a medal," from medal (n.). From 1857 as "to award (someone or something) a medal;" intransitive sense is 20c. Related: Medaled; medalled; medaling; medalling.\n
1580s, from Middle French médaille (15c.), from Italian medaglia "a medal," according to OED from Vulgar Latin *metallea (moneta) "metal (coin)," from Latin metallum (see metal). The other theory [Klein, Barnhart, Watkins] is that medaglia originally meant "coin worth half a denarius," and is from Vulgar Latin *medalia, from Late Latin medialia "little halves," neuter plural of medialis "of the middle" (see medial (adj.)). Originally a trinket or charm; as a reward for merit, proficiency, etc., attested from 1751.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object. 2 A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward. vb. (context sports very colloquial English) To win a medal.
WordNet
n. an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event [syn: decoration, laurel wreath, medallion, palm, ribbon]
Wikipedia
A medal or medallion is, strictly speaking, a small, flat, and round (at times, ovoid) piece of metal that has been sculpted, molded, cast, struck, stamped, or some way marked with an insignia, portrait, or other artistic rendering. A medal may be awarded to a person or organization as a form of recognition for sporting, military, scientific, academic, or various other achievements. Military awards and decorations are more precise terms for certain types of state decoration. Medals may also be created for sale to commemorate particular individuals or events, or as works of artistic expression in their own right. In the past, medals commissioned for an individual, typically with their portrait, were often used as a form of diplomatic or personal gift, with no sense of being an award for the conduct of the recipient.
An artist who creates medals or medallions is called a " medallist" ( UK) or "medalist" ( US). There are also devotional medals which may be worn for religious reasons. Medals have long been popular collectible items either as a variety of exonumia or of militaria. Medals may also be produced in a rectangular shape, though these would more correctly be described as a plaquette, and official awards such as military decorations are often in shapes such as crosses or stars, but are still loosely called "medals", as in the star-shaped American Medal of Honor.
In the proper use of the term, medallions are larger, starting at perhaps four inches across, and are, as such, usually too large to be worn very comfortably, though in colloquial use, "medallion" is sometimes improperly used to refer to a medal used as the pendant of a necklace (as in the medallion man fashion style of the 1960s and 1970s), or for other types of medals. Medallions may also be called "table medals" because they are too large to be worn and can only be displayed on a wall, table top, desk, or cabinet.
Medal were an English alternative rock band from Oxford.
Usage examples of "medal".
Though, like a descendant of Archbishop Sharp, and a winner of the archery medal, I boast myself Sancti Leonardi alumnus addictissimus, I am unable to give a description, at first hand, of student life in St.
The Tsar Alexander and his namesake heir-apparent, the Tsesarevich Alexander, wore the sapphire-blue uniform of the Ataman Kazakh Cavalry, with the massive medal of the Cross of St.
Then Michael watched as Blok, a tall, thin man with a sallow face, wearing a dress uniform studded with medals, made the rounds of the table, stopping to shake hands and slap backs.
So had the tampering with the bomb line before the mission to Bologna and the seven-day delay in destroying the bridge at Ferrara, even though destroying the bridge at Ferrara finally, he remembered with glee, had been a real feather in his cap, although losing a plane there the second time around, he recalled in dejection, had been another black eye, even though he had won another real feather in his cap by getting a medal approved for the bombardier who had gotten him the real black eye in the first place by going around over the target twice.
Comandante Dictator-Designate Franco Milhous Caudillo wore a Ruritanian uniform, quite threadbare but encrusted with medals, tarnished gold braid, sashes, epaulets and crossed bandoliers full of spent cartridge cases.
No medal is found celebrating the share of the Amazons in these exploits.
Right now he stood somewhat uncomfortably beside Justice Minister Clochard, who bore a red velvet pillow on which were arrayed two ribboned medals.
Antique medals showing equilibrists making the ascent of an inclined cord have been found.
He answered that he had already engraved two medals, and I gave him an order for both, in gold.
Medals are usually earned though the author cautions the general public that often woven into the formal citation is that germ of truth, surrounded by some degree of hyperbole and literary license.
When the last medal had been awarded, the last speech read, the final hyperbolic hyperbole driven home, they found themselves outside the justice building once again, high above the bustling streets and boulevards of the capital of Draymia.
This commerce he likewise extended to medals, bronzes, busts, intaglios, and old china, and kept divers artificers continually employed in making antiques for the English nobility.
He wore his brown, carefully ironed uniform with its chestful of medals and ribbons, and on his head was his black-visored cap, still bearing the seal of Czar Nicholas II.
Tristan slid a glance sideways, at the governor in military cloak and medals, and Larielle in furs.
She slipped from the ballroom with the Duc de Loury and returned, an hour or so later, with his medal unknowingly caught in the ribbons of her bodice.