symbol
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From French symbole, from Latin symbolus, symbolum (“a sign, mark, token, symbol, in Late Latin also a creed”), from Ancient Greek σύμβολον (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”), from συμβάλλω (sumbállō, “to throw together, dash together, compare, correspond, tally, come to a conclusion”), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw, put”).
Inflected forms:
form: symbols
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: symbols
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: symboling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: symbolling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: symboled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: symboled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: symbolled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: symbolled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
pos: noun
examples: "$" is the symbol for dollars in the US and some other countries.
Chinese people use word symbols for writing.
gloss: A thing considered the embodiment or cardinal exemplar of a concept, theme, or other thing.
pos: noun
examples: The lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience.
gloss: A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index.
pos: noun
gloss: A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith.
pos: noun
examples: The Apostles, Nicene Creed and the confessional books of Protestantism, such as the Augsburg Confession of Lutheranism are considered symbols.
gloss: The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes.
pos: noun
gloss: That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: They do their work in the days of peace […] and come to pay their symbol in a war or in a plague.
gloss: Share; allotment.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The persons who are to be judged […] shall all appear to receive their symbol.
gloss: An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code.
pos: noun
gloss: A signalling event on a communications channel; a signal that cannot be further divided into meaningful information.
pos: noun
gloss: To symbolize.
pos: verb
examples: […] They told me that the Holy Rood had lean'd / And bow'd above me; […] / [I]f it bow'd, whether it symbol'd ruin / Or glory, who shall tell?
Related words: diabolical
symbolic
symbolize
symbolism
Derived words: anarchy symbol
API service symbol
at symbol
biohazard symbol
Blissymbol
Blissymbols
Cambrian symbol
chemical symbol
Christoffel symbol
compound symbol
copyleft symbol
copyright symbol
currency symbol
eigensymbol
infinity symbol
intersymbol
Jacobi symbol
Kronecker symbol
Legendre symbol
Mars symbol
multisymbol
non-terminal symbol
nonterminal symbol
numero symbol
peace symbol
phonetic symbol
Pochhammer symbol
recycling symbol
Schläfli symbol
sex symbol
status symbol
stock symbol
stock ticker symbol
strephosymbolia
subsymbol
symbolatry
symbolgram
symbol group
symbolify
symbolisation
symbolistic
symbolization
symbologenic
symbologist
symbology
symboloid
symbololatry
symbolomania
symbolophobia
symbol pusher
symbol pushing
symbol-pushing
symbolry
symbol table
terminal symbol
ticker symbol
trademark symbol
typographical symbol
Venus symbol
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: simbol
lang: Arabic
word: رَمْز
roman: ramz
lang: Arabic
word: شَارَة
roman: šāra
lang: Arabic
word: شِعَار
roman: šiʕār
lang: Armenian
word: խորհրդանիշ
roman: xorhrdaniš
lang: Armenian
word: սիմվոլ
roman: simvol
lang: Asturian
word: símbolu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: simvol
lang: Azerbaijani
word: rəmz
lang: Azerbaijani
word: nişan
lang: Azerbaijani
word: əlamət
lang: Belarusian
word: сі́мвал
roman: símval
lang: Bengali
word: প্রতীক
roman: protik
lang: Bulgarian
word: си́мвол
roman: símvol
lang: Burmese
word: အထိမ်းအမှတ်
roman: a.htim:a.hmat
lang: Catalan
word: símbol
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 象徵 /象征
roman: xiàngzhēng
lang: Czech
word: symbol
lang: Danish
word: symbol
lang: Dutch
word: symbool
lang: Esperanto
word: simbolo
lang: Estonian
word: sümbol
lang: Finnish
word: symboli
lang: Finnish
word: merkki
lang: Finnish
word: tunnus
lang: French
word: symbole
lang: Galician
word: símbolo
lang: Georgian
word: სიმბოლო
roman: simbolo
lang: German
word: Symbol
lang: Greek
word: σύμβολο
roman: sýmvolo
lang: Hebrew
word: סֵמֶל
roman: sémel
lang: Hindi
word: प्रतीक
roman: pratīk
lang: Hungarian
word: szimbólum
lang: Hungarian
word: jelkép
lang: Icelandic
word: tákn
lang: Japanese
word: 象徴
roman: shōchō
lang: Japanese
word: シンボル
roman: shinboru
lang: Kazakh
word: рәміз
roman: rämız
lang: Kazakh
word: символ
roman: simvol
lang: Khmer
word: និមិត្តការណ៍
roman: nimɨt kaa
lang: Khmer
word: និមិត្តរូប
roman: nimɨt ruup
lang: Korean
word: 상징
roman: sangjing
lang: Korean
word: 심벌
roman: simbeol
lang: Kyrgyz
word: символ
roman: simvol
lang: Kyrgyz
word: белги
roman: belgi
lang: Lao
word: ສັນຍາລັກ
roman: san nyā lak
lang: Latvian
word: simbols
lang: Lingala
word: elembo
lang: Lithuanian
word: simbolis
lang: Lunda
word: yinjikijilu
lang: Macedonian
word: симбол
roman: simbol
lang: Malay
word: lambang
lang: Malay
word: simbol
lang: Malayalam
word: അടയാളം
roman: aṭayāḷaṁ
lang: Malayalam
word: പ്രതീകം
roman: pratīkaṁ
lang: Mongolian
word: бэлэгдэл
roman: belegdel
lang: Mongolian
word: тэмдэг
roman: temdeg
lang: Mongolian
word: бэлэг
roman: beleg
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: symbol
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: symbol
lang: Iranian Persian
word: نَماد
roman: namâd
lang: Iranian Persian
word: رَمْز
roman: ramz
lang: Iranian Persian
word: سَمْبُل
roman: sambol
lang: Portuguese
word: símbolo
lang: Romanian
word: simbol
lang: Russian
word: си́мвол
roman: símvol
lang: Russian
word: эмбле́ма
roman: embléma
lang: Russian
word: знак
roman: znak
lang: Scots
word: seembol
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сѝмбо̄л
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sìmbōl
lang: Slovak
word: symbol
lang: Slovene
word: simbol
lang: Spanish
word: símbolo
lang: Swedish
word: symbol
lang: Tagalog
word: simboló
lang: Tagalog
word: sagisag
lang: Tajik
word: рамз
roman: ramz
lang: Tajik
word: аломат
roman: alomat
lang: Tajik
word: нишона
roman: nišona
lang: Tajik
word: символ
roman: simvol
lang: Tamil
word: குறியீடு
roman: kuṟiyīṭu
lang: Thai
word: สัญลักษณ์
roman: sǎn-yá-lák
lang: Turkish
word: sembol
lang: Turkmen
word: simwol
lang: Turkmen
word: nyşan
lang: Ukrainian
word: си́мвол
roman: sýmvol
lang: Uzbek
word: ramz
lang: Uzbek
word: belgi
lang: Uzbek
word: simvol
lang: Vietnamese
word: ký hiệu
lang: Vietnamese
word: biểu tượng
lang: Welsh
word: symbol
lang: Yiddish
word: סימבאָל
roman: simbol