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blazon

/ˈbleɪzən/

blazon noun: a verbal or written description of a coat of arms.

Noun

blazon (countable and uncountable, plural blazons)

  1. A verbal or written description of a coat of arms.
    • ...it should never be forgotten that the best blazon is that which is the most perspicuous1894, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry
  2. A formalized language for describing a coat of arms.
    • The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […].1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480
    • We must banish, therefore, the persistent but wholly erroneous notion that the heralds invented many of the terms used in blazon and borrowed the rest from the everyday lexicon of terms...1997, Gerard J. Brault, Early Blazon
  3. A coat of arms or a banner depicting a coat of arms.
    • He wears their motto on his blade, / Their blazon o'er his towers displayed; [...]1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto Fifth. The Court.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William...
  4. Ostentatious display, verbal or otherwise; publication; description; record.
    • Obtrude the blazon of their exploits upon the company.1709, Jeremy Collier, Essays upon several moral subjects
    • Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, / Do give thee five-fold blazon.c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Verb

blazon (third-person singular simple present blazons, present participle blazoning, simple past and past participle blazoned)

  1. (transitive) To describe a coat of arms.
    • the following coat of arms, which I will send you in the original language, not being herald enough to blazon it in English10 July 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian, No. 104
    • After Blazoning the Shield, you proceed to the exterior ornaments viz.: The Helmet, Lambrequin, Crest, Supporters, Badge, and Motto1889, Charles Norton Elvin, A Dictionary of Heraldry
  2. To make widely or generally known, to proclaim.
    • O thou goddess/ thou divine Nature, how thyself thou blazon'st/ in these two princely boys.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
    • There pride sits blazoned on th' unmeaning brow.1774, John Trumbull, An Elegy on the Times
    Synonyms:
    blaze
  3. To display conspicuously or publicly.
  4. To shine; to be conspicuous.
  5. To deck; to embellish; to adorn.
    • She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form.1699, Samuel Garth, The Dispensary

blazon meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

blazon in Urdu

دکھانا

blazon in Malayalam

exhibit, display, present
പ്രമുഖമായി പ്രദർശിപ്പിക്കുക, പരസ്യപ്രദർശനം നടത്തുക, പ്രമുഖസ്ഥാനത്തു പ്രദർശിപ്പിക്കുക, വിടർത്തിക്കാട്ടുക, അവതരിപ്പിക്കുക, പൊതുപ്രദർശനം നടത്തുക
make public, publicize, make known
പരസ്യപ്പെടുത്തുക, സ്പഷ്ടമായിപ്രകടിപ്പിക്കുക, അറിയിക്കുക, അറിവിൽപെടുത്തുക, പരസ്യമാക്കുക, വിജ്ഞാപനം ചെയ്ക

Synonyms of blazon

Forms of blazon

Noun
pluralblazons
Verb
third-person singular presentblazons
present participleblazoning
past participleblazoned
pastblazoned

Origin of blazon

From Middle English blason, blasoun (“shield”), from Old French blason (“shield”).

Words formed from blazon

Words that rhyme with blazon

Questions about blazon

What does blazon mean?
Blazon means a verbal or written description of a coat of arms.
What is blazon in Urdu?
Blazon in Urdu is دکھانا. See Blazon meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is blazon?
Blazon can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce blazon?
Blazon is pronounced /ˈbleɪzən/.
What is the plural of blazon?
The plural of blazon is blazons.

Words near blazon in the dictionary

  1. blazingly
  2. blazings
  3. blazingstar
  4. blazingstars
  5. Blazis
  6. blazon
  7. blazonable
  8. blazoned
  9. blazoned trail
  10. blazoner
  11. blazoners

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: blazon (page history and authors); blazon (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blazon (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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