medal

Etymology

From Middle French medaille, medale, from Italian medaglia, from Late Latin medalia (“half a denarius”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: mĕdʹ-əl, IPA^(key): /ˈmɛdəl/
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [ˈmeɾ.ɫ̩]
  • Homophones: meddle, metal, mettle
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛd.ɫ̩]

  • Audio (UK)

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  • Homophone: meddle
  • (US) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɾ.ɫ̩]
  • Homophones: meddle, metal, mettle
• Rhymes: -ɛdəl

Noun

medal (plural medals)

1. A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
     , II.i.3:

     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?

2. A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward.

Verb

medal (third-person singular simple present medals, present participle medaling or medalling, simple past and past participle medaled or medalled)

1. (sports, colloquial) To win a medal.

   He medalled twice at the Olympics.

   • 2013 January 13, Elizabeth Alderfer as Anna, “Je Ne Sais What?”, in The Good Wife, season 4, episode 12:

     I wanted to medal. I was pregnant and I wanted to medal.

Anagrams

• Delma, damel, delam, lamed

Noun

medal

1. medal.

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

Noun

medal (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. medal

Etymology

From French médaille

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.dal/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

medal m inan

1. medal