badge

UK: /ˈbædʒ/ US: /bædʒ/ ,(baj)

Inflections of 'badge' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

badges

v 3rd person singular

badging

v pres p

badged

v past

badged

v past p

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

badge /bædʒ/   n. [countable]

1. a special mark, token, or device worn as a sign of membership, authority, or achievement.
2. any distinctive mark.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

badge  (baj), n., v., badged, badg•ing. 
n. 

1. a special or distinctive mark, token, or device worn as a sign of allegiance, membership, authority, achievement, etc.:
   a police badge; a merit badge.
2. any emblem, token, or distinctive mark:
   He considered a slide rule as the badge of an engineering student.
3. a card bearing identifying information, as one's name, symbol or place of employment, or academic affiliation, and often worn pinned to one's clothing.

v.t. 

4. to furnish or mark with a badge.

• ?
• Middle English bag(g)e 1300–50

badge′less, adj. 
Synonyms

• 1. insignia, shield, seal; hallmark, earmark.

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

badge / bædʒ/ noun

1. a distinguishing emblem or mark worn to signify membership, employment, achievement, etc
2. any revealing feature or mark

Etymology: 14th Century: from Norman French bage; related to Anglo-Latin bagia