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say it: baj
badge is a noun and verb meaning "an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.)". It is pronounced /ˈbædʒ/ — baj. It carries 3 recorded senses.
an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.)
“they checked everyone's badge before letting them in”
any feature that is regarded as a sign of status (a particular power or quality or rank)
“wearing a tie was regarded as a badge of respectability”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for badge come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.