Badge

Quick meaning: Badge is a noun meaning A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information.

Meaning

A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information.

More Meanings

1. A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area.
2. Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
3. (nautical) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
4. 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.
5. (heraldry) 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.
6. (graphical user interface) A small overlay on an icon that shows additional information about that item, such as the number of new alerts or messages.
7. (obsolete, thieves' cant) A brand on the hand of a thief, etc.

Example Sentences

He has got his badge, and piked.

Sweet mercy is nobility’s true badge.

the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman

He calmed down a lot when the policeman badged him.

Word Forms

• badges
• badging
• badged

Synonyms for badge

Depending on context, synonyms include emblem, pin.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include insignia, laissez-passer, regimental, label, policeman, nametag.

Related Dictionary Tools