Definitions for eikons

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eikons ei·kon

Spelling: [ahy-kon]

IPA: /ˈaɪ kɒn/

Eikons is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in eikons (eiknos).

Definitions for eikons

noun

1. icon (defs 1, 2).
2. a picture, image, or other representation.
3. Eastern Church. a representation of some sacred personage, as Christ or a saint or angel, painted usually on a wood surface and venerated itself as sacred.
4. a sign or representation that stands for its object by virtue of a resemblance or analogy to it:
5. a person or thing that is revered or idolized:
6. Computers. a picture or symbol that appears on a monitor and is used to represent a command, as a file drawer to represent filing.
7. Semiotics. a sign or representation that stands for its object by virtue of a resemblance or analogy to it.

Origin of eikons

1565-75; Latin Greek eikṓn likeness, image, figure

Examples for eikons

Every Grecian home has its eikon or picture of a saint or the Blessed Virgin.

Once she put up a candle before the eikon and prayed that Styopa might pass.

It is seen at present in the worship of the eikon or saint's image.

We were very much afraid of this eikon, because it was very old and black.

He wears a miniature eikon hung about his neck as a sort of amulet.

Then he set a basin of water and some incense before the eikon which was hung in a corner of the room.

The church became the shrine of the eikon of the Theotokos 227Hodegetria.

Nothing is more characteristic in the "eikon" than its indirectness.

The eikon to the Russian is even more important than the Czar.

How brightly the eikon lamp burns before the portrait of my boy.