"heraldry" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈhɛɹ.əl.dɹi/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-heraldry.wav [Southern-England] Forms: heraldries [plural]
Etymology: herald + -ry. First attested in 1572. Displaced earlier heraldy, equivalent to herald + -y. Etymology templates: {{affix|en|herald|-ry}} herald + -ry, {{m|enm|heraldy}} heraldy, {{affix|en|herald|-y|nocat=1}} herald + -y Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} heraldry (countable and uncountable, plural heraldries)
  1. (uncountable) The profession or art of devising, granting and blazoning coats of arms, tracing genealogies and ruling on questions of protocol or rank. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Heraldry Translations (the profession of devising and blazoning arms): heraldika [feminine] (Albanian), عِلْم شِعَارات النَبَالَة (ʕilm šiʕārāt an-nabāla) [masculine] (Arabic), գերբագիտություն (gerbagitutʿyun) (Armenian), heraldika (Azerbaijani), heraldika (Basque), гера́льдыка (hjerálʹdyka) [feminine] (Belarusian), ardamezouriezh [feminine] (Breton), хера́лдика (heráldika) [feminine] (Bulgarian), heràldica [feminine] (Catalan), 紋章學 (Chinese Mandarin), 纹章学 (wénzhāngxué) (Chinese Mandarin), araldicu (Corsican), eraldicu (Corsican), heraldika [feminine] (Czech), heraldik [common-gender] (Danish), wapenkunde [feminine] (Dutch), heraldiek [feminine] (Dutch), heraldiko (Esperanto), heraldika (Estonian), heraldiikka (Finnish), vaakunaoppi (Finnish), héraldique [feminine] (French), eraldiche [feminine] (Friulian), armaría [feminine] (Galician), heráldica [feminine] (Galician), ჰერალდიკა (heraldiḳa) (Georgian), Heraldik [feminine] (German), Heroldskunst [feminine] (German), Wappenwesen [neuter] (German), εραλδική (eraldikí) [feminine] (Greek), הרלדיקה (heraldika) [feminine] (Hebrew), heraldika (Hungarian), skjaldarmerkjafræði [feminine] (Icelandic), perbentaraan (Indonesian), araltas [masculine] (Irish), araldica [feminine] (Italian), 紋章学 (monshōgaku) (alt: もんしょうがく) (Japanese), 문장학 (munjanghak) (alt: 紋章學) (Korean), heraldika [feminine] (Latvian), aràldica [feminine] (Ligurian), heraldika [feminine] (Lithuanian), хералдика (heraldika) [feminine] (Macedonian), heraldikk [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), heraldikk [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), heraudica [feminine] (Occitan), نشانشناسی (nešân-šenâsi) (Persian), heraldyka [feminine] (Polish), heráldica [feminine] (Portuguese), aràldica [feminine] (Romagnol), heraldică [feminine] (Romanian), гера́льдика (gerálʹdika) [feminine] (Russian), earraideas [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), хера̀лдика [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), heràldika [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), aràldica [feminine] (Sicilian), heraldika [feminine] (Slovak), heráldika [feminine] (Slovene), blasón [masculine] (Spanish), heráldica [feminine] (Spanish), heraldik [common-gender] (Swedish), มุทราศาสตร์ (mudra-sàat) (Thai), arma bilimi (Turkish), heraldik (Turkish), гера́льдика (herálʹdyka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), huy hiệu học (Vietnamese), herodraeth [feminine] (Welsh), heraldik (Zazaki), desmaloci (Zazaki)
    Sense id: en-heraldry-en-noun-Q3-6eanh Disambiguation of Heraldry: 50 50 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 29 35 Disambiguation of 'the profession of devising and blazoning arms': 86 12 2
  2. (countable) An armorial ensign along with its history and description. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Heraldry
    Sense id: en-heraldry-en-noun-0e8FspUJ Disambiguation of Heraldry: 50 50 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 29 35
  3. (uncountable) Pageantry. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-heraldry-en-noun--XybUQY5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 35 29 35 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 31 26 43 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ry: 28 27 46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: heraldy [obsolete] Related terms: herald, heraldic, heraldric

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          "word": "εραλδική"
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          "sense": "the profession of devising and blazoning arms",
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          "word": "הרלדיקה"
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          "lang": "Indonesian",
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          "word": "araltas"
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          "alt": "もんしょうがく",
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          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "monshōgaku",
          "sense": "the profession of devising and blazoning arms",
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          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
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          "word": "문장학"
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          "sense": "the profession of devising and blazoning arms",
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          "sense": "the profession of devising and blazoning arms",
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          "sense": "the profession of devising and blazoning arms",
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the profession of devising and blazoning arms",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "blasón"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the profession of devising and blazoning arms",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "heráldica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the profession of devising and blazoning arms",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "heraldik"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "mudra-sàat",
      "sense": "the profession of devising and blazoning arms",
      "word": "มุทราศาสตร์"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the profession of devising and blazoning arms",
      "word": "arma bilimi"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the profession of devising and blazoning arms",
      "word": "heraldik"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "herálʹdyka",
      "sense": "the profession of devising and blazoning arms",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гера́льдика"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "the profession of devising and blazoning arms",
      "word": "huy hiệu học"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "the profession of devising and blazoning arms",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "herodraeth"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "the profession of devising and blazoning arms",
      "word": "heraldik"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "the profession of devising and blazoning arms",
      "word": "desmaloci"
    },
    {
      "code": "zza",
      "lang": "Zazaki",
      "sense": "the profession of devising and blazoning arms",
      "word": "desmaloci"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "heraldry"
  ],
  "word": "heraldry"
}

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