Icon

Noun



 * 1) An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
 * 2) A religious painting, often done on wooden panels.
 * 3) A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
 * That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.
 * 1) A small picture which represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)
 * : A type of noun whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also symbol and index.
 * 1) Pictual representations of files, programs and folders on a computer.

Related terms

 * iconic, iconoclastic, iconify
 * iconoclasm, iconoclast,
 * iconstasis, iconography

Thesaurus
Agnus Dei, Holy Grail, Host, Pieta, Sanctus bell, Sangraal, abstract, abstraction, altarpiece, ark, asperger, asperges, aspergillum, bambino, beadroll, beads, block print, candle, censer, certified copy, chaplet, ciborium, collage, color print, companion, copy, counterfeit, cross, crucifix, cruet, cyclorama, daub, dead ringer, diptych, double, duplicate, ectype, effigy, engraving, eucharistial, exact likeness, fair copy, faithful copy, fake, fellow, forgery, fresco, glosseme, holy cross, holy water, holy-water sprinkler, idol, illumination, illustration, image, imitation, incensory, lexeme, lexical form, likeness, living image, living picture, match, mate, matzo, menorah, mezuzah, mikvah, miniature, mirroring, model, monstrance, montage, morpheme, mosaic, mural, osculatory, ostensorium, panorama, paschal candle, pasticcio, pastiche, pax, phony, photograph, phrase, phylacteries, picture, portrait, prayer shawl, prayer wheel, print, pyx, reflection, relics, representation, reproduction, resemblance, rood, rosary, rubbing, sacramental, sacred relics, sacring bell, semasiological unit, semblance, sememe, shadow, shofar, sign, signifiant, significant, similitude, simulacrum, spit and image, spitting image, stained glass window, stencil, still life, sukkah, symbol, tabernacle, tableau, tallith, tapestry, term, thurible, token, trace, tracing, triptych, twin, type, urceole, veronica, very image, very picture, vigil light, votive candle, wall painting, word

Etymology
From icon <  εἰκών: (eikōn) "likeness, image, portrait". Eastern Orthodox Church sense is attested from 1833. Computing sense first recorded in 1982.

Translations

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 * Italian:
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 * Portuguese: Ícone
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 * Scottish Gaelic: ìomhaigh
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 * Roman: ikona
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ikon, bild


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 * Arabic: أيقونة
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 * Swedish: ikon, symbol


 * : icono

Anagrams

 * cion
 * coin, COIN
 * Nico

Etymology
From εἰκών: (eikōn) "likeness, image, portrait".

Noun

 * 1) an image
 * 2) (later Latin): icon (religious painting)

Related terms

 * iconicus
 * iconismus