EMBLAZON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emblazon mean? 

• EMBLAZON (verb)
  The verb EMBLAZON has 2 senses:

1. decorate with colors

2. decorate with heraldic arms

  Familiarity information: EMBLAZON used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMBLAZON (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they emblazon    ... he / she / it emblazons   
Past simple: emblazoned   
Past participle: emblazoned   
-ing form: emblazoning   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Decorate with colors

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

color; colour; emblazon

Context example:

color the walls with paint in warm tones

Hypernyms (to "emblazon" is one way to...):

adorn; beautify; decorate; embellish; grace; ornament (make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "emblazon"):

miniate (paint with red lead or vermilion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Decorate with heraldic arms

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

blazon; emblazon

Hypernyms (to "emblazon" is one way to...):

adorn; beautify; decorate; embellish; grace; ornament (make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.)

Domain category:

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

He bore no arms save the long and heavy sword which hung at his saddle-bow; but Terlake carried in front of him the high wivern-crested bassinet, Ford the heavy ash spear with swallow-tail pennon, while Alleyne was entrusted with the emblazoned shield.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)