a special or distinctive mark, token, or device worn as a sign of allegiance, membership, authority, achievement, etc.: a police badge; a merit badge.
any emblem, token, or distinctive mark: He considered a slide rule as the badge of an engineering student.
a card bearing identifying information, as one's name, symbol or place of employment, or academic affiliation, and often worn pinned to one's clothing.
Digital Technology. digital badge.
verb (used with object),badged,badg·ing.
to furnish or mark with a badge.
Origin of badge
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English baggys (plural); akin to Anglo-French bage “badge, emblem”; further origin unknown
SYNONYMS FOR badge
1 insignia, shield, seal; hallmark, earmark.
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OTHER WORDS FROM badge
badgeless,adjectiveun·badged,adjective
Words nearby badge
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A review board must not accept an officer’s version of events simply because the officer wears a badge.
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They’re federal agents, but with no name tags or badges, they are, in the moment of Simonis’s arrest, impossible to identify.
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Sprinkle in trust badges like “Safe Checkout” or “Money-back Guarantee” across your site.
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While many of the professional groups out there had unique items like a badge that identified them for most people, that wasn’t enough.
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So, I took my badge and I got on the bus, which drove me across campus.
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Let Jourdan Dunn be the first of many—not an island, or badge of self-congratulation.
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In fact, Clark fell back first from her blows, losing his cap, tie, and badge in the melee.
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It denotes the person that puts on the badge, puts on the blue uniform, and goes into the streets to put their life at risk.
Cop Families Boo De Blasio at NYPD Graduation|Michael Daly|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the West Bank, serving time in Israeli jails is a badge of honor.
Palestinian Cabinet Member Dies in Confrontation with Israeli Soldier|Creede Newton|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Our primary domestic defense is not a pilot or a drone on high but somebody in the street with a badge.
The Loser Who Wanted to Be the ISIS Agent Next Door|Michael Daly|September 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Weareth he not the Earl of Leicester's badge and cognisance?
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 359, November 13, 1886|Various
The string of pearls was coiled up in the midst of the roll of soiled muslin and the badge was pinned to one of the folds.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
Why is the poor College servitor to wear that name and that badge still?
The Book of Snobs|William Makepeace Thackeray
I would choose for its badge of membership a small silver fern leaf, crossed by a large gold key.
Solaris Farm|Milan C. Edson
Here the young warrior was invested with the badge of knighthood.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)|John Roby
British Dictionary definitions for badge
badge
/ (bædʒ) /
noun
a distinguishing emblem or mark worn to signify membership, employment, achievement, etc
any revealing feature or mark
Word Origin for badge
C14: from Norman French bage; related to Anglo-Latin bagia