HERALDRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heraldry mean? 

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

1. the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies

2. emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms

  Familiarity information: HERALDRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HERALDRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

enquiry; inquiry; research (a search for knowledge)

Domain member category:

sinister (on or starting from the wearer's left)

armorial (of or relating to heraldry or heraldic arms)

flighted (having feathers)

naiant; swimming (applied to a fish depicted horizontally)

salient (represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward))

passant (in walking position with right foreleg raised)

rampant; rearing (rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile)

statant (standing on four feet)

couchant (lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed forward)

dormant; sleeping (lying with head on paws as if sleeping)

assurgent (rising from the sea)

volant (with wings extended in a flying position)

dexter (on or starting from the wearer's right)

full-face; gardant; guardant (looking forward)

regardant (looking backward)

inflamed (adorned with tongues of flame)

crested (bearing an heraldic device)

ramp (be rampant)

ordinary ((heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields)

fleur-de-lis; fleur-de-lys ((heraldry) charge consisting of a conventionalized representation of an iris)

fess; fesse ((heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield)

device (an emblematic design (especially in heraldry))

crest ((heraldry) in medieval times, an emblem used to decorate a helmet)

arms; blazon; blazonry; coat of arms (the official symbols of a family, state, etc.)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

emblem (special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc.)

Domain member category:

annulet ((heraldry) a charge in the shape of a small ring)

roundel ((heraldry) a charge in the shape of a filled circle)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heraldry"):

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

arms; blazon; blazonry; coat of arms (the official symbols of a family, state, etc.)

 Context examples 

These coats-of-arms could be read, where a scroll would be meaningless, and the bowman, like most men of his age, was well versed in the common symbols of heraldry.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)