Badge Meaning:
1) n.) A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.
2) n.) Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
3) n.) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.
4) v. t.) To mark or distinguish with a badge.
What is that badge on your lapel?
His collar badge designates his rank.
She glanced briefly at his lapel badge.
Every student should carry a school badge.
He pulled out his badge and said he was a cop.
Each boy student has a school badge on his cap.
Steve won a photography badge in the Boy Scouts.
Even with a badge, MacLane was a blundering thug.
The badge therefore had a different background colour.
I went back to the station-house to turn in my badge and gun.
She went to a high-level management meeting wearing a button badge proclaiming her news.