icon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Eastern-Christianity
computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
religion
sciences
semiotics
Etymology: From Latin īcōn, from Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn, “likeness, image, portrait”). Eastern Orthodox Church sense is attested from 1833. Computing sense first recorded in 1982.
Inflected forms:
form: icons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eikon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ikon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An image, symbol, picture, portrait, or other representation, usually as an object of religious devotion.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.
pos: noun
tags: especially
examples: Last week the Archdiocese sent emmissaries to investigate the icon and decided that the tears were not a hoax, Father Koufos said.
gloss: A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.
Only a handful of rock musicians have become genuine icons - larger-than-life symbolic figures whose personal triumphs and vicissitudes seem to mirror the ups and downs of rock as a whole, and sometimes of the society that nurtures it. Often, rock icons become the objects of personality cults that tend to overshadow their musical accomplishments.
Barbie is viewed as an icon of American culture in her new biography, Barbie: Her Life and Times (Crown, $25), written by Billy Boy, a clothing and jewelry designer in Paris.
gloss: A small picture that represents something.
pos: noun
examples: Click the loudspeaker icon to configure audio settings.
The program's most quintessentially Macintoshian feature, one as yet unique among spreadsheets, is its icon bar, which resides at the top of the screen just below the standard menu bar. It contains 21 icons, each of which allows the user to perform a specified function with but a few clicks of the mouse.
gloss: A small picture that represents something.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
informal
examples: Is it okay if I use your drawing as my icon?
gloss: A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons.
pos: noun
examples: .
Related words: aniconic
aniconism
iconantidyptic
iconic
iconical
iconically
iconicity
iconicness
iconics
iconism
iconistic
iconistical
iconistically
icono-
iconoclasm
iconoclast
iconoclastic
iconodule
iconodulic
iconodulism
iconodulist
iconoduly
iconograph
iconographer
iconographic
iconographical
iconographically
iconographist
iconography
iconolater
iconolatry
iconological
iconologist
iconology
iconomach
iconomachal
iconomachian
iconomachical
iconomachist
iconomachy
iconomania
iconomatic
iconomatically
iconomaticism
iconomatography
iconometer
iconometric
iconometrical
iconometrically
iconometry
iconophile
iconophilia
iconophilism
iconophilist
iconophily
iconophobe
iconophobia
iconophobic
iconoplast
iconoscope
iconostas
iconostasis
iconotropic
iconotropy
noniconic
uniconic
miniature
replica
simulacrum
Derived words: autoicon
bicon
dykon
earcon
emoticon
favicon
gay icon
hamburger icon
iconification
iconifier
iconify
iconisation
iconise
iconization
iconize
iconless
iconlike
iconology
icon-stand
identicon
musicon
obscenicon
subicon
WIMP
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: قُونَة
roman: qūna
lang: Arabic
word: أَيْقُونَة
roman: ʔayqūna
lang: Armenian
word: պատկեր
roman: patker
lang: Belarusian
word: во́браз
roman: vóbraz
lang: Belarusian
word: абра́з
roman: abráz
lang: Bulgarian
word: изображе́ние
roman: izobražénie
lang: Catalan
word: icona
lang: Cornish
word: ikon
lang: Czech
word: ikona
lang: Danish
word: ikon
lang: Dutch
word: icoon
lang: Esperanto
word: piktogramo
lang: Finnish
word: ikoni
lang: Finnish
word: symboli
lang: French
word: icône
lang: Galician
word: icona
lang: German
word: Bild
lang: Greek
word: εικόνα
roman: eikóna
lang: Hungarian
word: ikon
lang: Irish
word: íocón
lang: Italian
word: icona
lang: Latin
word: icon
lang: Latin
word: icuncula
lang: Maltese
word: ikona
lang: Māori
word: ata
lang: Māori
word: ata iti
lang: Norman
word: icône
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: ikon
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: ikon
lang: Persian
word: شمایل
lang: Polish
word: ikona
lang: Portuguese
word: ícone
lang: Russian
word: изображе́ние
roman: izobražénije
lang: Russian
word: о́браз
roman: óbraz
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ìomhaigh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ѝкона
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ìkona
lang: Slovak
word: ikona
lang: Slovene
word: ikona
lang: Spanish
word: icono
lang: Spanish
word: ícono
lang: Swedish
word: ikon
lang: Swedish
word: bild
lang: Ukrainian
word: зобра́ження
roman: zobrážennja
lang: Ukrainian
word: о́браз
roman: óbraz
lang: Vietnamese
word: biểu tượng
lang: Welsh
word: eicon
lang: Yup'ik
word: ikuunaq
lang: Amharic
word: አዶ
roman: ʾädo
lang: Arabic
word: أَيْقُونَة
roman: ʔayqūna
lang: Armenian
word: պատկերակ
roman: patkerak
lang: Bulgarian
word: ико́на
roman: ikóna
lang: Burmese
word: အိုင်ကွန်
roman: uingkwan
lang: Catalan
word: icona
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 圖標 /图标
roman: tou⁴ biu¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 圖標 /图标
roman: túbiāo
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 圖示 /图示
roman: túshì
lang: Czech
word: ikona
lang: Danish
word: ikon
lang: Dutch
word: icoon
lang: Dutch
word: pictogram
lang: Esperanto
word: piktogramo
lang: Esperanto
word: ikono
lang: Finnish
word: kuvake
lang: French
word: icône
lang: Galician
word: icona
lang: German
word: Icon
lang: Greek
word: εικονίδιο
roman: eikonídio
lang: Hungarian
word: ikon
lang: Indonesian
word: ikon
lang: Irish
word: íocón
lang: Italian
word: icona
lang: Japanese
word: アイコン
roman: aikon
lang: Kazakh
word: таңбаша
roman: tañbaşa
lang: Korean
word: 아이콘
roman: aikon
lang: Maltese
word: ikona
lang: Māori
word: ata
lang: Marathi
word: आयकन
roman: āykan
lang: Norman
word: icône
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: ikon
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: ikon
lang: Persian
word: نماک
lang: Polish
word: ikona
lang: Polish
word: ikonka
lang: Portuguese
word: ícone
lang: Romanian
word: iconiță
lang: Russian
word: ико́нка
roman: ikónka
lang: Russian
word: пиктогра́мма
roman: piktográmma
lang: Russian
word: значо́к
roman: značók
lang: Russian
word: карти́нка
roman: kartínka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ѝкона
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: иконица
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ìkona
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ikonica
lang: Slovak
word: ikona
lang: Slovak
word: symbol
lang: Spanish
word: icono
lang: Spanish
word: ícono
lang: Swedish
word: ikon
lang: Swedish
word: symbol
lang: Thai
word: ไอคอน
lang: Thai
word: สัญรูป
lang: Turkish
word: sembol
lang: Turkish
word: simge
lang: Ukrainian
word: іко́нка
roman: ikónka
lang: Ukrainian
word: значо́к
roman: značók
lang: Ukrainian
word: піктогра́ма
roman: piktohráma
lang: Ukrainian
word: карти́нка
roman: kartýnka
lang: Uyghur
word: سىنبەلگە
roman: sinbelge
lang: Uyghur
word: ئايكون
roman: aykon
lang: Vietnamese
word: biểu tượng
lang: Welsh
word: eicon