CHEVRON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chevron mean? 

• CHEVRON (noun)
  The noun CHEVRON has 2 senses:

1. V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service

2. an inverted V-shaped charge

  Familiarity information: CHEVRON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEVRON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

chevron; grade insignia; stripe; stripes

Context example:

they earned their stripes in Kuwait

Hypernyms ("chevron" is a kind of...):

badge (an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.))

Domain category:

armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An inverted V-shaped charge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chevron" is a kind of...):

armorial bearing; bearing; charge; heraldic bearing (heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield)

 Context examples 

In his hand he held a blue cricket-cap with a white chevron on the peak.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Close behind us is the moline cross of the gallant William Molyneux, and beside it the bloody chevrons of the Norfork Woodhouses, with the amulets of the Musgraves of Westmoreland.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The roof was poor and thatched; but in strange contrast to it there ran all along under the eaves a line of wooden shields, most gorgeously painted with chevron, bend, and saltire, and every heraldic device.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here were the gold mullets of the Pakingtons, the sable and ermine of the Mackworths, the scarlet bars of the Wakes, the gold and blue of the Grosvenors, the cinque-foils of the Cliftons, the annulets of the Musgraves, the silver pinions of the Beauchamps, the crosses of the Molineaux, the bloody chevron of the Woodhouses, the red and silver of the Worsleys, the swords of the Clarks, the boars'-heads of the Lucies, the crescents of the Boyntons, and the wolf and dagger of the Lipscombs.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)