Synonyms for emblematic

Grammar : Adj

Spell : em-bluh-mat-ik or em-bluh-mat-i-kuh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˌɛm bləˈmæt ɪk or ˌɛm bləˈmæt ɪ kəl

Définition of emblematic

Origin : 1640s, perhaps via French emblématique, from Greek emblematikos, from emblema (see emblem).

adj symbolic

Example sentences :

It is not words only that are emblematic; it is things which are emblematic.
Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Its splendour and display were emblematic of the coming reign.
Extract from : « Henry VIII. » by A. F. Pollard

Blue is emblematic of failure, disappointment, or unsatisfied desire.
Extract from : « The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees » by James Mooney

It was an instructive scene, emblematic of this fallen world.
Extract from : « The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago » by John S. C. Abbott

The design is emblematic of the story of the Garden of Eden.
Extract from : « Commercial Geography » by Jacques W. Redway

Most of the pages were surrounded with emblematic traceries.
Extract from : « The Professor at the Breakfast Table » by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

The scene around him was emblematic of his life: save Godolphin, not a friend was by.
Extract from : « Godolphin, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

His order, half monastic, half warlike, was emblematic of himself.
Extract from : « Rienzi » by Edward Bulwer Lytton

These are only emblematic of his character, and that is all.
Extract from : « Mark Twain's Speeches » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

These were his friends, emblematic of the new relationship in which he stood to mankind.
Extract from : « The Inside of the Cup, Complete » by Winston Churchill

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