medal
/ˈmɛdəl/[ˈmɛd.ɫ̩]
medal noun: a stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object.
Noun
medal (plural medals)
- A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object.
- Whether their images, shrines, relics, consecrated things, holy water, medals, benedictions, those divine amulets, holy exorcisms, and the sign of the cross, be available in this disease?, II.i.3
- A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward.
- A Roman coin worth half a denarius.
Verb
medal (third-person singular simple present medals, present participle (US) medaling or (UK) medalling, simple past and past participle (US) medaled or (UK) medalled)
- To win a medal.
- He medalled twice at the Olympics.
- I dashed into the mall; bought a gift; raced to the card store, snapped up a two-fer gift-bag special and was back in my car in 26 minutes. I could medal in power shopping.2004 October 29, Carol McAlice Currie, “Unposted laws make downtown seem unwelcoming”, in Statesman Journal, volume 152, number 214, Salem, OR, page 1C
- To award a medal to.
Proper noun capitalized: Medal
Medal (plural Medals)
- A surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician].
medal meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
medal in Hindi
- stamped metal disc
- पदक padak, मेडल meḍal, तकमा takmā, तमगा tamgā, तमग़ा tamġā, तक्मा takmā
medal in Tamil
- stamped metal disc
- பதக்கம் patakkam
medal in Marathi
- stamped metal disc
- पदक padak, बिल्ला billā
medal in Urdu
- stamped metal disc
- تَمْغا tamġā, میڈَل meḍal
More languagesFewer languages
- medal in Bengali
- তকমা tokma, পদক podok, মেডেল meḍel
- medal in Telugu
- బిరుదు బిళ్ళ birudu biḷḷa, పతకం patakaṁ
- medal in Malayalam
- സ്മാരകമുദ്ര smārakamudra, ബിരുദമുദ്ര birudamudra, പതക്കം patakkaṁ
- medal in Kannada
- ಪದಕ, ಸ್ಮಾರಕಪದಕ, ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪದಕ
- medal in Punjabi
- ਤਮਗ਼ਾ tamġā, ਮੈਡਲ maiḍal
- medal in Gujarati
- પદક padak, ચંદ્રક candrak
- medal in Odia
- ପଦକ
- medal in Sinhala
- පදක්කම padakkama
- medal in Nepali
- पदक padak, तक्मा takmā
- medal in Tagalog
- medalya
- medal in Arabic
- مِيدَالِيَة mīdāliya, مِِيدَالْيَة midālya, وِسَام wisām
- medal in Malay
- pingat, medali
- medal in Indonesian
- medali
- medal in Thai
- เหรียญ rǐian
- medal in Vietnamese
- huy chương, mề đay
- medal in Myanmar
- ဆုတံဆိပ်ရှင် hcu.tamhciphrang, ဆုရှင် hcu.hrang, တံဆိပ် tamhcip, ဆုတံဆိပ် hcu.tamhcip
Examples of medal in a sentence
- Vocab-wise, medalling and PB-ing are now totally part-and-parcelled, and most experts in South Korea believe podiumed, finalled and all-comered are not far off lexiconing.2011 January 9, Harry Pearson, “London 2012 can legacy by verbing the noun”, in The Guardian:
- Rebecca Romero medaled in rowing and track cycling in 2004 and 2008, joining East German swimmer-turned-handball player Roswitha Krause and several swimmers/divers as two-sport medalists.2024 July 30, Beau Dure, “What’s tougher than competing in an Olympic sport? Competing in two”, in The Guardian:
- Though she never medalled at the Olympics, she did win a pair of golds at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador in 2002.2024 August 20, Edward Helmore, “Five-time Olympian cyclist found dead in Las Vegas after choking on food”, in The Guardian:
Forms of medal
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | medals |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | medals |
| present participle US | medaling |
| present participle UK | medalling |
| past participle US | medaled |
| past US | medaled |
| past participle UK | medalled |
| past UK | medalled |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Medals |
Origin of medal
From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French medaille, medale, from Italian medaglia (originally "half a denarius"), from Early Medieval Latin medālia, feminine derived via dissimilation (/dj–lj/ > /d–lj/) from mediālia, neuter plural of Late Latin mediālis (“middle”, adjective), from Classical Latin medius.
Borrowed from Spanish Medal, itself a surname of Galician origin. This surname is predominantly found in Nicaragua.
Words formed from medal
Phrases with medal
Words that rhyme with medal
Questions about medal
- What does medal mean?
- Medal means a stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object.
- What is medal in Hindi?
- Medal in Hindi is पदक (padak), मेडल (meḍal), तकमा (takmā). See Medal meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use medal in a sentence?
- Vocab-wise, medalling and PB-ing are now totally part-and-parcelled, and most experts in South Korea believe podiumed, finalled and all-comered are not far off lexiconing.
- What part of speech is medal?
- Medal can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce medal?
- Medal is pronounced /ˈmɛdəl/.
- What is the plural of medal?
- The plural of medal is medals.
Words near medal in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: medal (page history and authors); Medal (page history and authors); medal (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); medal (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); පදක්කම (Sinhala) (page history and authors). 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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