1. a heraldic device or symbolic object as a distinctive badge of a nation, organization, or family: "America's national emblem, the bald eagle"
▪ a thing serving as a symbolic representation of a particular quality or concept:"our child would be a dazzling emblem of our love"
Word Originlate 16th century (as a verb): from Latin emblema ‘inlaid work, raised ornament’, from Greek emblēma ‘insertion’, from emballein ‘throw in, insert’, from em- ‘in’ + ballein ‘to throw’.
