label of
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5.9
- noun
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etiqueta de
- She rejected the label of introvert and embraced her outgoing personality.
- earned the label of
- retain the label of
- reject the label of
And, you know, I, I began to identify with the label of being someone who had a bad back.
- And, you know, I, I began to identify with the label of being someone who had a bad back.
- And yet the suffering has always attracted stigma, a label of weakness and shame.
- I am too big to be defined by a box, any box, any label of any size.
- But you know, the he got the easy label of like, oh, problem child and all that in the NFL.
- So some of you are going to go no contact and this will carry with it the label of you being estranged from your family.
- But second, can you talk about why you think we often demonize that that label of millionaire?
- But it seems like the label of ethnic minority has superseded their label of working class.
- You get called, it's, I get called the thought leader, which is the, the most ridiculous label of all time.
Examples
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Why I do not claim the label of "Engaged Buddhist": because there is no such thing.
Blog text (7) -
But it seems like the label of ethnic minority has superseded their label of working class.
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And, you know, I, I began to identify with the label of being someone who had a bad back.
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I coach a lot of men and a lot of them are tied to the label of being a man.
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I am too big to be defined by a box, any box, any label of any size.
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You get called, it's, I get called the thought leader, which is the, the most ridiculous label of all time.
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Once in a hospital, a patient is stigmatized by the label of mental illness.
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To be sure, there is no shortage of subjects competing for the label of new national security priority.
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And yet the suffering has always attracted stigma, a label of weakness and shame.
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The fastest-growing minority group, according to the 2000 census, in this country comes under the ethnic label of Hispanic.
Academic text (2006)
Synonyms
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1.0
A word or label added to something online to describe it
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5.3
A name or title used to identify something, showing its kind
Antonyms
How Descriptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
label + of
The sense 'a term or category used to classify or describe someone' is directly derivable from 'label' (an identifying or descriptive term) combined with the prepositional attribution expressed by 'of'. This noun + of-construction follows standard, cross-linguistic composition patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Label of comes from the idea of a physical label or tag people stuck on things to show what they were. When someone gets the label of 'troublemaker' or 'genius', it is like a tag stuck on them, so the phrase now means 'a name or tag used to describe someone'.