hallmark

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːlmɑːk/
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• General-American: /ˈhɔlmɑɹk/
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• cot-caught-merger: [ˈhɑɫmɑɹk]
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• CMU ARPABET: HH AA1 L M AA2 R K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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The company is named after its founder, J. C. Hall, and a reference to hallmark (“official marking”).

1721. From hall + mark, from Goldsmiths' Hall in London, the site of the assay office, official stamp of purity in gold and silver articles. The general sense of “mark of quality” first recorded 1864. Use as a verb from 1773.

61 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: белег (beleg) — a distinct characteristic
• Bulgarian: критерий (kriterij) — a distinct characteristic
• Chinese Mandarin: 標誌 /标志 (biāozhì) — a distinct characteristic
• Chinese Mandarin: 特徵 /特征 (tèzhēng) — a distinct characteristic
• Czech: charakteristika — a distinct characteristic
• Czech: specifikum — a distinct characteristic
• Czech: charakteristický znak — a distinct characteristic
• Dutch: kenmerk — a distinct characteristic
• Dutch: kenteken — a distinct characteristic
• Dutch: merkteken — a distinct characteristic
• Finnish: tuntomerkki — a distinct characteristic
• Finnish: tunnusmerkki — a distinct characteristic
• French: marque de fabrique — a distinct characteristic
• Galician: característica — a distinct characteristic
• Galician: trazo m distintivo — a distinct characteristic
• German: Kennzeichen — a distinct characteristic
• Hungarian: (fő/legfőbb) ismertetőjegy — a distinct characteristic
• Hungarian: ismertetőjel — a distinct characteristic
• Hungarian: stílusjegy — a distinct characteristic
• Hungarian: jellegzetesség — a distinct characteristic
• Hungarian: sajátosság — a distinct characteristic
• Hungarian: jellemző/legjellemzőbb vonás/sajátosság — a distinct characteristic
• Ingrian: tunnusmerkki — a distinct characteristic
• Ingrian: tuntomerkki — a distinct characteristic
• Italian: segno caratteristico — a distinct characteristic
• Italian: elemento caratteristico — a distinct characteristic
• Norwegian Bokmål: kjennetegn — a distinct characteristic
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kjenneteikn — a distinct characteristic
• Polish: cecha charakterystyczna — a distinct characteristic
• Portuguese: característica — a distinct characteristic
• Portuguese: traço m distintivo — a distinct characteristic
• Russian: при́знак (príznak) — a distinct characteristic
• Russian: крите́рий (kritɛ́rij) — a distinct characteristic
• Russian: си́мвол (símvol) — a distinct characteristic
• Russian: знак (znak) — a distinct characteristic
• Slovene: značilnost — a distinct characteristic
• Spanish: distintivo — a distinct characteristic
• Swedish: kännetecken — a distinct characteristic
• Vietnamese: dấu ấn — a distinct characteristic
• Bulgarian: клеймо (klejmo) — an official marking
• Czech: punc — an official marking
• Dutch: keurteken — an official marking
• Dutch: meesterteken — an official marking
• Finnish: tunnus — an official marking
• French: poinçon — an official marking
• German: Repunze — an official marking
• German: Punze — an official marking
• Hungarian: fémjel — an official marking
• Hungarian: fémjelzés — an official marking
• Japanese: 太鼓判 (taikoban) — an official marking
• Japanese: 極印 (gokuin) — an official marking
• Polish: cecha probiercza — an official marking
• Polish: próba — an official marking
• Portuguese: cunho — an official marking
• Russian: про́ба (próba) — an official marking
• Russian: клеймо́ (klejmó) — an official marking
• Dutch: merken — to provide or stamp with a hallmark
• Hungarian: fémjelez — to provide or stamp with a hallmark
• Hungarian: fémjellel ellát — to provide or stamp with a hallmark
• Polish: oznaczać stemplem probierczym — to provide or stamp with a hallmark
• Polish: oznaczyć stemplem probierczym — to provide or stamp with a hallmark