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bemedaled

UK/bɪˈmɛdəld/

bemedaled adjective: having or wearing medals.

Adjective

bemedaled (comparative more bemedaled, superlative most bemedaled)

  1. Having or wearing medals.
    • However it may be customary for English newspapers to designate the English sovereign, they are at least not addicted to sycophancy in designating the rulers of other countries than their own. They would not say “His Abracadabral Humptidumptiness Emperor William” […] They would not think of calling...1909, Ambrose Bierce, “The American Sycophant” in The Shadow of the Dial and other Essays, San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, pp. 208-209
    • […] there was to the ferocity of his eye, the splendour of his famous moustache, his immense bemedalled figure and his utterly humourless brand of imperialism—there was to Kitchener, though one might hardly dare say it to his face, something faintly absurd.1968, Jan Morris, chapter 13, in Pax Britannica: The Climax of Empire, Faber & Faber, published 2010, page 276

Forms of bemedaled

comparativemore bemedaled
superlativemost bemedaled
alternative Commonwealthbemedalled

Origin of bemedaled

From be- + medal + -ed.

Questions about bemedaled

What does bemedaled mean?
Bemedaled means having or wearing medals.
What part of speech is bemedaled?
Bemedaled is an adjective.
How do you pronounce bemedaled?
Bemedaled is pronounced /bɪˈmɛdəld/ (UK).

Words near bemedaled in the dictionary

  1. bemeaned
  2. bemeaning
  3. bemeans
  4. bemeant
  5. bemedal
  6. bemedaled
  7. bemedaling
  8. bemedalled
  9. bemedalling
  10. bemedals
  11. bemeet

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