Word: icon

Category: icon

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Related words: icon

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Synonyms: icon

companion, friend, colleague, associate, partner, coworker, workmate, pal, crony, mate, chum, buddy, dawg, peeps, familiar, fellow, brother

Translations: icon

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spanish
Translations:
icono
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german
Translations:
zeichen, symbol, bild, abbild, ikone
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french
Translations:
image, figure, icône
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italian
Translations:
icona
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portuguese
Translations:
imagem, vista, gravura, figura, estampa, ícone, quadro
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dutch
Translations:
voorstelling, plaat, pictogram, afbeelding, figuur, prent
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russian
Translations:
картина, изображение, рисунок, икона, образ
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finnish
Translations:
kuva, mielikuva
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czech
Translations:
ikona
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polish
Translations:
ikona
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hungarian
Translations:
ikon, szentkép
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turkish
Translations:
resim, suret
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greek
Translations:
σύμβολο, εικόνα
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ukrainian
Translations:
візерунчастий, ікона, візерунковий
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albanian
Translations:
ikonë
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bulgarian
Translations:
икона
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estonian
Translations:
ikoon
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croatian
Translations:
simbol, portret, ikone, sličica, ikona, slika
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lithuanian
Translations:
paveikslas, paveiksliukas, atvaizdas, piešinys
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latvian
Translations:
glezna, atspoguļojums, iemiesojums, attēls
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slovenian
Translations:
ikona
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slovak
Translations:
ikona

The meaning and "use of": icon

noun
  • a painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches. - The iconoclasts wanted to rid the church of images, icons , even paintings.
  • a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something. - this iron-jawed icon of American manhood
  • a symbol or graphic representation on a screen of a program, option, or window, especially one of several for selection. - It also said that although the sales will come from services such as mobile phone graphics, icons , screen savers and novelty voice mail, it is ringtones that will dominate.
  • a sign whose form directly reflects the thing it signifies, for example, the word snarl pronounced in a snarling way. - Peirce distinguishes three types of sign - the icon , the index and the symbol.

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