INSIGNIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insignia mean? 

• INSIGNIA (noun)
  The noun INSIGNIA has 1 sense:

1. a badge worn to show official position

  Familiarity information: INSIGNIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSIGNIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A badge worn to show official position

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("insignia" is a kind of...):

badge (an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "insignia"):

caduceus (an insignia used by the medical profession; modeled after the staff of Hermes)

insignia of rank (an insignia worn on a military uniform)

shoulder flash (something worn on the shoulder of a military uniform as an emblem of a division etc.)

hash mark; hashmark; service stripe (an insignia worn to indicate years of service)

cordon (cord or ribbon worn as an insignia of honor or rank)

wings (stylized bird wings worn as an insignia by qualified pilots or air crew members)

 Context examples 

We stayed there two days and two nights, a hundred and thirty men with sixteen Lewis guns, and when the infantry came up at last they found the insignia of three German divisions among the piles of dead.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)