blue ribbon

1. 1.

   an honor or award gained for excellence

   Synonymscordon bleu

   Broaderbadge

Questions about blue ribbon

What does blue ribbon mean?

blue ribbon means "an honor or award gained for excellence".

What is another word for blue ribbon?

Close synonyms include cordon bleu. 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 blue ribbon a common word?

blue ribbon 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.