emblazon

Other forms of emblazon

past tense

emblazonned·

present participle

emblazonning·

third person

emblazons·

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 emblazon

What does emblazon mean?

emblazon means "decorate with colors". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in emblazon?

emblazon has 3 syllables: em-bla-zon. The stress falls on "bla". In IPA it is /ɛmˈbleɪzən/.

What is another word for emblazon?

Close synonyms include color, colour, blazon. 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 emblazon a common word?

emblazon 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.