order of the purple heart

1. 1.

   a United States military decoration awarded to any member of the armed forces who is wounded in action

   SynonymsPurple Heart

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Questions about order of the purple heart

What does order of the purple heart mean?

order of the purple heart means "a United States military decoration awarded to any member of the armed forces who is wounded in action".

What is another word for order of the purple heart?

Close synonyms include Purple Heart. 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 order of the purple heart a common word?

order of the purple heart 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.