Emblazon

Definitions: Emblazon

Emblazon

Verb

1. Decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones".

2. Decorate with heraldic arms.

Note: Emblazon \Em*bla"zon\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Emblazoned; present participle verb or noun Emblazoning.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Emblazon

Synonyms: blazon (v), color (v), colour (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Ornament	Garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank; trick out, fig out; deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array; begawd, titivate; dress, dress up; spangle, bespangle, powder; embroider, work; chase, emboss, fret, emblazon; illuminate; illustrate.
Ostentation	Cry up; (praise); proner, flaunt, emblazon, prink, set off, mount, have framed and glazed.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Emblazon

English words defined with "emblazon": Emblaze, Emblazoned, Emblazoning ♦ Imblazon. (references)

"Emblazon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Emblazon" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "emblazon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pikturoj me ngjyra të ndezura, lavdëroj (belaud, commend, eulogize, exalt, extol, glorify, glory, Laud, magnify, panegyrize, praise, puff, vaunt). (various references)

Bulgarian		рисувам герб, превъзнасям (aggrandize, cry up, flatter, overpraise, rhapsodize, vaunt). (various references)

Chinese		装饰 (Adorn, Adorned, Adorning, Decking, decor, Decorate, Decorated, Decorating, Decoration, Decorative, decoratively, Drape, Draped, Emblazoned, Emblazoning, Emboss, Embossed, Embossing, fringed, Fringing, Garnish, garnished, Garnishing, latticed, Latticing, ornamental, ornamentally, Ornamented, Ornamenting). (various references)

Czech		oslavovat (celebrate, exalt, rejoice). (various references)

Farsi		تعریف کردن (Define, Praise, Recount, Unreel), بانشانهای نجابت خانوادگی اراستن . (various references)

French		parer. (various references)

German		schmücken (adorn, adornment, array, attire, bedeck, blazon, decorate, drape, embellish, gild, ornament, spangle, to adorn, to blazon, to decorate, to emblazon, to spangle, trim). (various references)

Greek		χρωματίζω με ζωηρά χρώματα, εξυμνώ (celebrate, praise). (various references)

Hungarian		heraldikus díszítéssel ellát. (various references)

Indonesian		menghiasi (adorn, embellish, illustrate). (various references)

Italian		blasonare. (various references)

Manx		jesheenaghey (adorn, adornment, bedeck, decorate, dress, embellish, garnish, painting, painting trade, prank, preen, renovation, set, titivate). (various references)

Pig Latin		emblazonay

Portuguese		enaltecer (extol, extoll, laudable, magnify, pedestal, praise), amargurar (endure, sadden). (various references)

Romanian		slãvi (bless, chant, exalt, glorify, Laud, praise), picta un blazon, împodobi cu un blazon. (various references)

Russian		расписывать герб, превозносить (belaud, cry up, eulogize, exalt, extol, glorify, vaunt). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ukrasiti (adorn, array, decorate, enchase, garnish, illuminate, ornament, trim). (various references)

Spanish		engalanar (array, bedizen, deck, festoon, spruce up). (various references)

Swedish		utsmycka (deck, embellish, flourish), utbasunera (trumpet), pryda med heraldiska figurer, förhärliga (exalt, glorify, transfigure). (various references)

Turkish		yüceltmek (aggrandize, belaud, ennoble, enrich, exalt, sublimate, sublime, transfigure, uplift), kutlamak (celebrate, commemorate, congratulate, felicitate, greet, keep, observe), göklere çıkarmak (beslaver, build up, celebrate, cry up, enthrone, exalt to the skies, flatter, glorify, magnify, pour it on, praise to the skies, sing smb.'s praise, sing the praises of), armalarla süslemek, övmek (acclaim, accord praise, belaud, boost, build up, celebrate, commend, compliment, crack up, cry up, eulogize, exalt, extol, extoll, flatter, glorify, magnify, panegyrize, pay tribute, praise, puff, sing smb.'s praise, sing the praises of, speak in praise of smb., talk up, vaunt). (various references)

Ukranian		звеличувати (aggrandize, apotheosize, celebrate, eulogize, exalt, extol, extoll, glorify, glory), прославляти (apotheosize, celebrate, glorify, praise), прикрашати гербом. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "emblazon": emblazoned, emblazoner, emblazoners, emblazoning, emblazonment, emblazonments, emblazonries, emblazonry, emblazons. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Emblazon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Embledown. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "emblazon" (pronounced emblā"zun)
4	-ā" z u n	brazen, Hazan.
3	-z u n	arisen, artisan, bipartisan, chosen, citizen, cousin, crimson, denizen, dozen, frozen, Hausen, horizon, imprison, Mizen, nonpartisan, partisan, poison, prison, reason, risen, rosin, season, thousand, treason, unfrozen, wizen.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-m-n-o-z"
	-2 letters: bemoan, benzal, benzol, blazon.
	-3 letters: alone, amble, amole, anole, azlon, azole, beano, blame, blaze, bonze, leman, lemon, melon, noble, zoeal, zonal.
	-4 letters: able, aeon, alme, aloe, ambo, amen, azon, bale, balm, bane, beam, bean, bema, blae, blam, bola, bole, bone, ebon, elan, enol, lamb, lame, lane, laze, lean, leno, loam, loan, lobe, lone, mabe, male, mane, mano, maze, meal, mean, meno, moan, mola, mole, nabe, name, nema, noel, noma, nome, olea, omen, zeal, zoea, zone.
	-5 letters: abo, alb, ale, ane, azo, bal, bam, ban, bel, ben, boa, elm, eon, lab, lam, lea, lez, lob, mae, man, mel, men, moa, mob, mol, mon, nab, nae, nam, neb, nob, nom, obe, ole, one, zoa.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-m-n-o-z"
	+1 letter: emblazons.
	+2 letters: emblazoned, emblazoner, emblazonry.
	+3 letters: emblazoners, emblazoning.
	+4 letters: emblazonment, emblazonries, embolization, metabolizing, normalizable.
	+5 letters: bamboozlement, benzimidazole, emblazonments, embolizations, unmetabolized.
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