Definitions for symbol

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symbol sym·bol

Spelling: [sim-buh l]

IPA: /ˈsɪm bəl/

Symbol is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in symbol (blmosy).

Definitions for symbol

noun

1. something used for or regarded as representing something else; a material object representing something, often something immaterial; emblem, token, or sign.
2. a letter, figure, or other character or mark or a combination of letters or the like used to designate something:
3. (especially in semiotics) a word, phrase, image, or the like having a complex of associated meanings and perceived as having inherent value separable from that which is symbolized, as being part of that which is symbolized, and as performing its normal function of standing for or representing that which is symbolized: usually conceived as deriving its meaning chiefly from the structure in which it appears, and generally distinguished from a sign.

verb (used with object)

1. to use symbols; symbolize.

Origin of symbol

1400-50; late Middle English Latin symbolum Greek sýmbolon sign, equivalent to sym- sym- + -bolon, neuter for bolḗ (feminine) a throw

Examples for symbol

After her departure, I remarked that the symbol was none of the most apt.

Here, perchance, may be found a clue in symbol to the family strife.

We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.

But was the "star and crescent" the symbol of the City of Constantine?

In Wicca, the female goddess is represented by the Moon, a symbol of Mother Earth and fertility.

It is now possible the building can be a symbol for progress.

He wished to be dressed completely in white, as a symbol of his innocence.

From the symbol of her degradation, she looked to the man whose action had placed it there.

Conservative Muslim women in Turkey hailed Esme as a martyr and a symbol of female strength and resistance.

She hoped to fashion them into a necklace, she said, as a symbol of the pain she had endured.