HOW TO PRONOUNCE
badge
/bædʒ/
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What does badge mean?
noun
- A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one’s clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization.
- A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information.
- A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area.
More meanings (10)
noun
- Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
- A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
- A distinctive mark worn by servants, retainers, and followers of royalty or nobility, who, being beneath the rank of gentlemen, have no right to armorial bearings.
- A small overlay on an icon that shows additional information about that item, such as the number of new alerts or messages.
- An icon or emblem awarded to a user for some achievement.
- (slang) A police officer.
- (obsolete) A brand on the hand of a thief, etc.
verb
- To mark or distinguish with a badge.
- To show a badge to.
- To enter a restricted area by showing one’s badge.
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IPA pronunciation
/bædʒ/
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But butchers, also, and butchers of the bloodiest badge have been all Martial Commanders whom the world invariably delights to honor.
What should meet my eyes upon entering these grounds but John Cobden, of pancake turner memory, wearing a badge upon his sleeve.
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Having snapped at an officer for an unpolished badge, at another because his line was not straight, he reached the third company.
I don't mean to treat you with a rowing for a badge, but it will fall in very commodely between my parties.
Exeter, who was false, took the royal badge, which was a hart, off his shield, and assumed the rose, the badge of Henry.