noun1. a piece of paper, card, or other material attached to an object to identify it or give instructions or details concerning its ownership, use, nature, destination, etc; tag
2. a brief descriptive phrase or term given to a person, group, school of thought, etc
the label "Romantic" is applied to many different kinds of poetry
3. a word or phrase heading a piece of text to indicate or summarize its contents
4. a trademark or company or brand name on certain goods, esp, formerly, on gramophone records
5. another name for dripstone (sense 2)
6. heraldry a charge consisting of a horizontal line across the chief of a shield with three or more pendants: the charge of an eldest son
7. computing a group of characters, such as a number or a word, appended to a particular statement in a program to allow its unique identification
8. chemistry a radioactive element used in a compound to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction
verbWord forms: -bels, -belling, -belledWord forms: US -bels, -beling or -beled (transitive)11. to describe or classify in a word or phrase
to label someone a liar
12. to make (one or more atoms in a compound) radioactive, for use in determining the mechanism of a reaction
Word origin
C14: from Old French, from Germanic; compare Old High German
lappa rag