Medal

/ˈmɛdəl/ · noun

Meaning

A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object..

Definitions by Sense

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.
3. (intransitive, sports, colloquial) To win a medal.
4. (transitive) To award a medal to.

Example Sentences

Whether their images, shrines, relics, consecrated things, holy water, medals, benedictions, those divine amulets, holy exorcisms, and the sign of the cross, be available in this disease?

He medalled twice at the Olympics.

I dashed into the mall; bought a gift; raced to the card store, snapped up a two-fer gift-bag special and was back in my car in 26 minutes. I could medal in power shopping.

Vocab-wise, medalling and PB-ing are now totally part-and-parcelled, and most experts in South Korea believe podiumed, finalled and all-comered are not far off lexiconing.

I wanted to medal. I was pregnant and I wanted to medal.

In 2008, after being passed over yet again for USA Basketball’s Beijing Olympics team, San Antonio Stars all-star Becky Hammon signed a four-year, $2m contract with CSKA Moscow that included a six-figure bonus for becoming a naturalised citizen and medaling at the Games.

Rebecca Romero medaled in rowing and track cycling in 2004 and 2008, joining East German swimmer-turned-handball player Roswitha Krause and several swimmers/divers as two-sport medalists.

Though she never medalled at the Olympics, she did win a pair of golds at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador in 2002.

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Word Forms

• medals
• medaling
• medalling
• medaled
• medalled

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