Word Meanings - MEDAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A piece of metal in the form of a coin, struck with a device, and intended to preserve the remembrance of a notable event or an illustrious person, or to serve as a reward. (more info) through LL. metalleus made of metal. See Metal, and cf.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MEDAL)

• Trophy
• War-spoil
• acquisition
• laurels
• palm
• bays
• wreath
• prize
• medal
• feather

Related words: (words related to MEDAL)

• FEATHERNESS
  The state or condition of being feathery.
• FEATHER-FEW
  Feverfew.
• FEATHER-VEINED
  Having the veins diverging from the two sides of a midrib.
• MEDAL PLAY
  Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
• FEATHER-FOIL
  An aquatic plant , having finely divided leaves.
• WREATHLESS
  Destitute of a wreath.
• ACQUISITION
  1. The act or process of acquiring. The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay. 2. The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition. Syn. -- See Acquirement.
• WREATHE
  1. To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser. 2. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine. The nods and smiles of recognition into which this singular
• MEDALET
  A small medal.
• FEATHER-EDGED
  Having a feather-edge; also, having one edge thinner than the other, as a board; -- in the United States, said only of stuff one edge of which is made as thin as practicable.
• WREATH-SHELL
  A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.
• FEATHERED
  Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog. (more info) 1. Clothed, covered, or fitted with feathers or wings; as, a feathered animal; a feathered arrow. Rise from the ground like feathered
• FEATHER-HEADED
  Giddy; frivolous; foolish. G. Eliot.
• MEDALLIC
  Of or pertaining to a medal, or to medals. "Our medallic history." Walpole.
• FEATHERLY
  Like feathers. Sir T. Browne.
• FEATHERY
  Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or as with, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow. Milton. Ye feathery people of mid air. Barry Cornwall.
• FEATHERSTITCH
  A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
• FEATHER-HEELED
  Light-heeled; gay; frisky; frolicsome.
• FEATHER-HEAD
  A frivolous or featherbrained person. H. James.
• HYPERTROPHY
  A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.
• EUTROPHY
  Healthy nutrition; soundless as regards the nutritive functions.
• PINFEATHERED
  Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
• OVERPRIZE
  Toprize excessively; to overvalue. Sir H. Wotton.
• INTERWREATHE
  To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. Lovelace.
• SEA FEATHER
  Any gorgonian which branches in a plumelike form.
• EXSTROPHY
  The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder.
• APPRIZER
  A creditor for whom an appraisal is made. Sir W. Scott. (more info) 1. An appraiser.
• INWREATHE
  Resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams. Milton.
• ASTROPHYTON
  A genus of ophiurans having the arms much branched.
• APPRIZEMENT
  Appraisement.
• OUTPRIZE
  To prize beyong value, or in excess; to exceed in value. Shak.