name
Meaning 1
A surname from Spanish [in turn from Galician].
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
medal
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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mĕdʹ-əl
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/ˈmɛdəl/
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UK: [ˈmɛd.ɫ̩]
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homophone: meddle
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US: [ˈmɛɾ.ɫ̩]
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homophone: metal
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homophone: mettle
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Australian: [ˈmeɾ.ɫ̩]
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rhymes with -ɛdəl
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CMU ARPABET: M EH1 D AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object.
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noun
Meaning 3
A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward.
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noun
Meaning 4
A Roman or Italian coin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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verb
Meaning 5
To win a medal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, intransitive
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
Examples
- He medalled twice at the Olympics.
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verb
Meaning 6
To award a medal to.
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Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 7
an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: decoration, laurel wreath, medallion, palm, ribbon
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: award, accolade, honor, honour, laurels
Narrower terms: Medal of Honor, Congressional Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, Silver Star Medal, Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal, Bronze Star, Order of the Purple Heart, Purple Heart, Oak Leaf Cluster, Victoria Cross, Distinguished Conduct Medal, Distinguished Service Order, Croix de Guerre, Medaille Militaire
History
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Medal, itself a surname of Galician origin. This surname is predominantly found in Nicaragua.
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.
Across languages
Translations
141 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: medalje — stamped metal disc
- Albanian: medalje — stamped metal disc
- Amharic: ሽልማት (šəlmat) — stamped metal disc
- Arabic: مِيدَالِيَة (mīdāliya) — stamped metal disc
- Arabic: مِِيدَالْيَة (midālya) — stamped metal disc
- Arabic: وِسَام (wisām) — stamped metal disc
- Arabic: مدلية (madilya) — stamped metal disc
- Arabic: ميدالية (mīdāliyya) — stamped metal disc
- Arabic: وِسام (wisām) — stamped metal disc
- Armenian: մեդալ (medal) — stamped metal disc
- Asturian: medaya — stamped metal disc
- Azerbaijani: medal — stamped metal disc
- Bashkir: миҙал (miźal) — stamped metal disc
- Basque: domina — stamped metal disc
- Belarusian: меда́ль (mjedálʹ) — stamped metal disc
- Belarusian: мэда́ль (medálʹ) — stamped metal disc
- Bengali: তকমা (tokma) — stamped metal disc
- Bengali: পদক (podok) — stamped metal disc
- Bengali: মেডেল (meḍel) — stamped metal disc
- Breton: medalenn — stamped metal disc
- Bulgarian: меда́л (medál) — stamped metal disc
- Burmese: ဆုတံဆိပ်ရှင် (hcu.tamhciphrang) — stamped metal disc
- Burmese: ဆုရှင် (hcu.hrang) — stamped metal disc
- Burmese: တံဆိပ် (tamhcip) — stamped metal disc
- Burmese: ဆုတံဆိပ် (hcu.tamhcip) — stamped metal disc
- Catalan: medalla — stamped metal disc
- Chinese Mandarin: 獎章 /奖章 (jiǎngzhāng) — stamped metal disc
- Chinese Mandarin: 勳章 /勋章 (xūnzhāng) — stamped metal disc
- Chinese Mandarin: 勛章 /勋章 (xūnzhāng) — stamped metal disc
- Czech: medaile — stamped metal disc
- Danish: medalje — stamped metal disc
- Dutch: medaille — stamped metal disc
- Dutch: erepenning — stamped metal disc
- Erzya: ловмоярмак (lovmojarmak) — stamped metal disc
- Esperanto: medalo — stamped metal disc
- Estonian: medal — stamped metal disc
- Faroese: heiðursmerki — stamped metal disc
- Faroese: medalja — stamped metal disc
- Finnish: mitali — stamped metal disc
- French: médaille — stamped metal disc
- West-Frisian: medalje — stamped metal disc
- Galician: medalla — stamped metal disc
- Georgian: მედალი (medali) — stamped metal disc
- German: Medaille — stamped metal disc
- Greek: μετάλλιο (metállio) — stamped metal disc
- Gujarati: પદક (padak) — stamped metal disc
- Gujarati: ચંદ્રક (candrak) — stamped metal disc
- Hebrew: מֵדַלְיָה (medálya) — stamped metal disc
- Hindi: पदक (padak) — stamped metal disc
- Hindi: मेडल (meḍal) — stamped metal disc
- Hindi: तकमा (takmā) — stamped metal disc
- Hindi: तमगा (tamgā) — stamped metal disc
- Hindi: तमग़ा (tamġā) — stamped metal disc
- Hindi: तक्मा (takmā) — stamped metal disc
- Hindi: बिल्ला (billā) — stamped metal disc
- Hungarian: érem — stamped metal disc
- Hungarian: medália — stamped metal disc
- Hunsrik: Mëtallia — stamped metal disc
- Icelandic: minnispeningur — stamped metal disc
- Icelandic: medalía — stamped metal disc
- Ido: medalio — stamped metal disc
- Indonesian: medali — stamped metal disc
- Irish: bonn — stamped metal disc
- Italian: medaglia — stamped metal disc
- Japanese: 賞牌 (shōhai) — stamped metal disc
- Japanese: メダル (medaru) — stamped metal disc
- Japanese: 勲章 (kunshō) — stamped metal disc
- Kazakh: медаль (medal) — stamped metal disc
- Khmer: មេដាយ (meidaay) — stamped metal disc
- Khmer: ឥស្សរិយាភរណៈ (ʼihsaʼreyaʼphĕəʼrĕəʼnaʼ) — stamped metal disc
- Korean: 메달 (medal) — stamped metal disc
- Korean: 상패 (sangpae) — stamped metal disc
- Korean: 훈장 (hunjang) — stamped metal disc
- Northern Kurdish: medalya — stamped metal disc
- Kyrgyz: медаль (medal) — stamped metal disc
- Ladin: bedaia — stamped metal disc
- Lao: ຫລຽນ (līan) — stamped metal disc
- Lao: ຫຣຽນ (rīan) — stamped metal disc
- Latin: medalis — stamped metal disc
- Latvian: medaļa — stamped metal disc
- Lithuanian: medalis — stamped metal disc
- Macedonian: медал (medal) — stamped metal disc
- Malay: pingat — stamped metal disc
- Malay: medali — stamped metal disc
- Malayalam: സ്മാരകമുദ്ര (smārakamudra) — stamped metal disc
- Malayalam: ബിരുദമുദ്ര (birudamudra) — stamped metal disc
- Malayalam: പതക്കം (patakkaṁ) — stamped metal disc
- Maltese: midalja — stamped metal disc
- Marathi: पदक (padak) — stamped metal disc
- Marathi: बिल्ला (billā) — stamped metal disc
- Mongolian: медаль (medalʹ) — stamped metal disc
- Mongolian: одон (odon) — stamped metal disc
- Nepali: पदक (padak) — stamped metal disc
- Nepali: तक्मा (takmā) — stamped metal disc
- Norwegian Bokmål: medalje — stamped metal disc
- Norwegian Nynorsk: medalje — stamped metal disc
- Occitan: medalha — stamped metal disc
- Ossetian: медаль (medalʹ) — stamped metal disc
- Iranian Persian: مِدال (medâl) — stamped metal disc
- Polish: medal — stamped metal disc
- Portuguese: medalha — stamped metal disc
- Punjabi: ਤਮਗ਼ਾ (tamġā) — stamped metal disc
- Punjabi: ਮੈਡਲ (maiḍal) — stamped metal disc
- Romanian: medalie — stamped metal disc
- Russian: меда́ль (medálʹ) — stamped metal disc
- Scottish Gaelic: bonn-cuimhne — stamped metal disc
- Serbo-Croatian: мѐдаља — stamped metal disc
- Serbo-Croatian: mèdalja — stamped metal disc
- Sicilian: middaghia — stamped metal disc
- Slovak: medaila — stamped metal disc
- Slovene: medalja — stamped metal disc
- Somali: billad — stamped metal disc
- Somali: bilada — stamped metal disc
- Sotho: metlele — stamped metal disc
- Spanish: medalla — stamped metal disc
- Spanish: presea — stamped metal disc
- Swahili: nishani — stamped metal disc
- Swedish: medalj — stamped metal disc
- Tagalog: medalya — stamped metal disc
- Tajik: медал (medal) — stamped metal disc
- Tamil: பதக்கம் (patakkam) — stamped metal disc
- Tatar: медаль (medalʹ) — stamped metal disc
- Telugu: బిరుదు బిళ్ళ (birudu biḷḷa) — stamped metal disc
- Telugu: పతకం (patakaṁ) — stamped metal disc
- Thai: เหรียญ (rǐian) — stamped metal disc
- Tibetan: རྟགས་མ (rtags ma) — stamped metal disc
- Turkish: madalya — stamped metal disc
- Ottoman Turkish: مدالیه (madalya) — stamped metal disc
- Turkmen: nyşan — stamped metal disc
- Turkmen: medal — stamped metal disc
- Ukrainian: меда́ль (medálʹ) — stamped metal disc
- Urdu: تَمْغا (tamġā) — stamped metal disc
- Urdu: میڈَل (meḍal) — stamped metal disc
- Uyghur: مېدال (mëdal) — stamped metal disc
- Uzbek: medal — stamped metal disc
- Vietnamese: huy chương — stamped metal disc
- Vietnamese: mề đay — stamped metal disc
- Walloon: medaye — stamped metal disc
- Welsh: bathodyn — stamped metal disc
- Welsh: medal — stamped metal disc
- Yiddish: מעדאַל (medal) — stamped metal disc
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