plaque

Noun

Meaning

Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

memorial tablet tartar brass inscription monument marker memorial cup award crown remembrance medallion cairn medal blackboard
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Antonyms

loss shame disregard bathe booby prize

Hypernyms

memorial fleck spot monument patch speckle

Hyponyms

dental plaque amyloid plaque amyloid protein plaque bacterial plaque arterial plaque

Related terms

placard plaquet placula

Phrases with the word

morphea en plaque gold plaque golden plaque plaque stage kaposi sarcoma

Examples

I am having a plaque put on the front of my house. It will say, "To God, Mother, Father and Baseball." Roberto Clemente

A plaque and platinum status iIs whack if I'm not the baddest. Eminem

My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque. Denzel Washington

There's a plaque on our wall that says we've sold over 65 million albums, and I don't feel I've accomplished anything. I feel like I'm just getting started. Eddie Van Halen

A blue plaque on the side of a booth saying: T.S. Eliot spent the night here in 1929. Source: Internet

A blue plaque at Oldham's Tommyfield Market marks the first chips fried in England in 1860, and the origin of the fish and chip shop and fast food industries in England. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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