Hallmark

Quick meaning: Hallmark is a noun meaning (figurative) A distinguishing characteristic.

Meaning

(figurative) A distinguishing characteristic.

More Meanings

1. An official marking made by a trusted party, usually an assay office, on items made of precious metals.
2. To provide or stamp with a hallmark.

Example Sentences

The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.

It can highlight our embodiment, a qualitative step away from the hallmark machines that work so resolutely to disembody us.

You know what a university is, and a university degree? It is the necessary hallmark of a man who wants to do anything in teaching.

In everything Brent said and did and wore, in all his movements, gestures, expressions, there was the unmistakable hallmark of the man worth while.

Word Forms

• hallmarks
• hallmarking
• hallmarked

Synonyms for hallmark

Depending on context, synonyms include earmark, trademark, authentication.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trademark, authentication, earmark, marking, imprint, label.

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