blazon

1. 1.

   decorate with heraldic arms

   Synonymsemblazon

   Broaderdecorate

   art

Other forms of blazon

plural

blazons·

past tense

blazonned·

present participle

blazonning·

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.

Questions about blazon

What does blazon mean?

blazon means "the official symbols of a family, state, etc.". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blazon?

blazon has 2 syllables: bla-zon. The stress falls on "bla".

What is another word for blazon?

Close synonyms include coat of arms, arms, blazonry, emblazon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blazon a common word?

blazon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.