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hallmarks

hallmarks is the plural of hallmark.

Meaning of hallmark

Noun

hallmark (plural hallmarks)

  1. (figuratively) A distinguishing characteristic.
    • You know what a university is, and a university degree? It is the necessary hallmark of a man who wants to do anything in teaching.1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC
  2. An official marking made by a trusted party, usually an assay office, on items made of precious metals.
    • It can highlight our embodiment, a qualitative step away from the hallmark machines that work so resolutely to disembody us.2007, John Zerzan, Silence

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Proper noun capitalized: Hallmarks

Hallmarks

  1. (plural) plural of Hallmark

Questions about hallmarks

What is hallmarks the plural of?
Hallmarks is the plural of hallmark.
What part of speech is hallmarks?
Hallmarks is a proper noun.

Words near hallmarks in the dictionary

  1. hallmarker
  2. hallmarkers
  3. hallmarking
  4. hallmarkings
  5. Hallmarkish
  6. hallmarks
  7. Hallmarky
  8. hallmate
  9. hallmates
  10. hallmen
  11. hallmoot

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