MEDAL (medalled, medalling)

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Irregular inflected forms: medalled    , medalling   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does medal mean? 

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

1. an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEDAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

decoration; laurel wreath; medal; medallion; palm; ribbon

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

accolade; award; honor; honour; laurels (a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction)

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

Congressional Medal of Honor; Medal of Honor (the highest U.S. military decoration awarded for bravery and valor in action 'above and beyond the call of duty')

Distinguished Service Medal (a United States military decoration for meritorious service in wartime duty of great responsibility)

Distinguished Service Cross (a United States Army decoration for extraordinary heroism against an armed enemy)

Navy Cross (a United States Navy decoration for extraordinary heroism against an armed enemy)

Distinguished Flying Cross (a United States Air Force decoration for heroism while participating in an aerial flight)

Air Medal (a United States Air Force decoration for meritorious achievement while participating in an aerial flight)

Silver Star; Silver Star Medal (a United States military decoration for gallantry in action)

Bronze Star; Bronze Star Medal (a United States military decoration awarded for meritorious service (except in aerial flight))

Order of the Purple Heart; Purple Heart (a United States military decoration awarded to any member of the armed forces who is wounded in action)

Oak Leaf Cluster (a United States military decoration consisting of bronze or silver oak leaves and acorns awarded to anyone who has won a given medal before)

Victoria Cross (a British military decoration for gallantry)

Distinguished Conduct Medal (a British military decoration for distinguished conduct in the field)

Distinguished Service Order (a British military decoration for special service in action)

Croix de Guerre (a French military decoration for gallantry)

Medaille Militaire (a French military decoration)

Derivation:

medalist; medallist (someone who has won a medal)

 Context examples 

“It is with mine other guardian angels,” quoth he, pointing at the saints' medals which hung beside it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To my mother, all my clothes, except the blue apron with pockets—also my likeness, and my medal, with much love.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He scrutinised the reverse of these living medals some five minutes, then pronounced sentence.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Warholm, who is 23 years old, won the gold medal with a time of 47.42 seconds.

(Norway's Warholm wins gold in 400 m hurdles at World Championships in Doha, Wikinews)

Books of engravings, drawers of medals, cameos, corals, shells, and every other family collection within his cabinets, had been prepared for his old friend, to while away the morning; and the kindness had perfectly answered.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“Didn't I know it! But how little you think of the rightful umbleness of a person in my station, Master Copperfield! Father and me was both brought up at a foundation school for boys; and mother, she was likewise brought up at a public, sort of charitable, establishment. They taught us all a deal of umbleness—not much else that I know of, from morning to night. We was to be umble to this person, and umble to that; and to pull off our caps here, and to make bows there; and always to know our place, and abase ourselves before our betters. And we had such a lot of betters! Father got the monitor-medal by being umble. So did I. Father got made a sexton by being umble. He had the character, among the gentlefolks, of being such a well-behaved man, that they were determined to bring him in. “Be umble, Uriah,” says father to me, “and you'll get on. It was what was always being dinned into you and me at school; it's what goes down best. Be umble,” says father, “and you'll do!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After I had graduated I continued to devote myself to research, occupying a minor position in King’s College Hospital, and I was fortunate enough to excite considerable interest by my research into the pathology of catalepsy, and finally to win the Bruce Pinkerton prize and medal by the monograph on nervous lesions to which your friend has just alluded.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Third place and the bronze medal went to Abderrahman Samba of Qatar with a time of 48.03 seconds.

(Norway's Warholm wins gold in 400 m hurdles at World Championships in Doha, Wikinews)

In one hand he grasped a thick staff pointed and shod with metal, while in the other he held his coif or bonnet, which bore in its front a broad pewter medal stamped with the image of Our Lady of Rocamadour.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The silver medal was won by Rai Benjamin from the United States, who finished the race in 47.66 seconds.

(Norway's Warholm wins gold in 400 m hurdles at World Championships in Doha, Wikinews)