Icon - English meaning

Icon – definitions in English dictionary

noun
A devotional painting of christ or another holy figure, typically executed on wood and used ceremonially in the byzantine and other eastern churches.
Usage examples:
The iconoclasts wanted to rid the church of images, icons, even paintings.
Synonims:
Image Idol Portrait Likeness Representation Symbol Figure Statue Model
noun
A person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration.
Usage examples:
This iron-jawed icon of american manhood
noun
A symbol or graphic representation on a screen of a program, option, or window.
Usage examples:
It also said that although the sales will come from services such as mobile phone graphics, icons, …
noun
A sign which has a characteristic in common with the thing it signifies, for example the word snarl pronounced in a snarling way.
Usage examples:
Peirce distinguishes three types of sign - the icon, the index and the symbol.

noun
A famous person or thing that represents something of importance
Usage examples:
The us capitol building is an american icon., click on the icon to open the program.

noun
A small picture or symbol on a computer screen that you click on to make the computer do something, for example open a file, start a program, or save a document
Usage examples:
When you've finished, click the menu icon and the exit button., the american company has become a g…

Icon translation into English

Icon: translate from English into Chinese

图标, 圣像, 画像, 图签

Icon: translate from English into Dutch

Icoon, Icon, Pictogram, Beeld, Heiligenbeeld

Icon: translate from English into French

Icône

Icon: translate from English into German

Symbol, Ikone, Ikon, Abbild, Ikonisches zeichen

Icon: translate from English into Hindi

आइकन, आइकॉन

Icon: translate from English into Italian

Icona

Icon: translate from English into Korean

상

Icon: translate from English into Russian

Значок, Икона, Изображение

Icon: translate from English into Spanish

Icono, Símbolo gráfico, Representación gráfica

Word origin

mid 16th century (in the sense ‘simile’): via Latin from Greek eikōn ‘likeness, image’. Current senses date from the mid 19th century onwards.

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Icon – similar words

iconic

adjective
Relating to or of the nature of an icon.
Usage examples:
He became an iconic figure for directors around the world

adjective
Relating to or characteristic of a famous person or thing that represents something of importance
Usage examples:
Scenes of parisians dancing in the streets remain iconic images from world war ii.

Iconic - all meanings in English

Icon synonims

figure

ˈfɪɡ.ər

noun
A number, especially one which forms part of official statistics or relates to the financial performance of a company.
Usage examples:
The trade figures

verb
Have a significant part or role in a situation or process.
Usage examples:
The issue of nuclear policy figured prominently in the talks

noun
A number or an amount
Usage examples:
The collection was valued at $20 million, a figure that might cover the cost of having artists recr…

Figure - all meanings in English

idol

noun
An image or representation of a god used as an object of worship.
Usage examples:
These were, we must remember, unbelieving gentiles, worshipers of idols and knew very little of the…

Idol - all meanings in English

image

noun
A representation of the external form of a person or thing in art.
Usage examples:
Her work juxtaposed images from serious and popular art

verb
Make a representation of the external form of.
Usage examples:
Artworks which imaged women's bodies

noun
An idea, esp. a mental picture, of what something or someone is like
Usage examples:
I had an image of texas in my head that was totally different from how it really is., he’s trying t…

Image - all meanings in English

likeness

noun
The fact or quality of being alike; resemblance.
Usage examples:
Her likeness to him was astonishing

noun
A similarity
Usage examples:
Sandy bears a much stronger likeness to her mother than to her father.

Likeness - all meanings in English

model

noun
A three-dimensional representation of a person or thing or of a proposed structure, typically on a smaller scale than the original.
Usage examples:
A model of st paul's cathedral

verb
A simplified description, especially a mathematical one, of a system or process, to assist calculations and predictions.
Usage examples:
A statistical model used for predicting the survival rates of endangered species

verb
A representation of something, often on a smaller scale

Model - all meanings in English

portrait

noun
A painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders.
Usage examples:
A portrait of george iii

adjective
Of or in a format of printed matter or screen display that is higher than it is wide.
Usage examples:
To take photos in a portrait or landscape mode, just swivel the phone

noun
A painting, photograph, or drawing of a person
Usage examples:
The book paints a grim portrait of wartime suffering.

Portrait - all meanings in English

representation

noun
The action of speaking or acting on behalf of someone or the state of being so represented.
Usage examples:
You may qualify for free legal representation

noun
People who will speak and act for you in an official situation, or the fact of someone speaking and acting for you
Usage examples:
More american workers are demanding union representation., these employees need legal representatio…

Representation - all meanings in English

statue

noun
A carved or cast figure of a person or animal, especially one that is life-size or larger.
Usage examples:
The sculptor antonio canova used classical statues as the basis for his figures of modern men and w…

noun
A large art object, often representing a person or an animal, that is made from a hard material, esp. stone or metal

Statue - all meanings in English

symbol

noun
A mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g. the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation.
Usage examples:
The symbol r in figure 5 represents a gene which is ineffective

verb
Symbolize.
Usage examples:
The first was symbol of the atonement the 2nd was to symbol the carrying away of sins.

Symbol - all meanings in English

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