Definitions for token

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token to·ken

Spelling: [toh-kuh n]

IPA: /ˈtoʊ kən/

Token is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in token (eknot).

Definitions for token

noun

1. something serving to represent or indicate some fact, event, feeling, etc.; sign:
2. a characteristic indication or mark of something; evidence or proof:
3. a memento; souvenir; keepsake:
4. something used to indicate authenticity, authority, etc.; emblem; badge:
5. Also called token coin. a stamped piece of metal, issued as a limited medium of exchange, as for bus fares, at a nominal value much greater than its commodity value.
6. anything of only nominal value similarly used, as paper currency.
7. an item, idea, person, etc., representing a group; a part as representing the whole; sample; indication.
8. Logic, Linguistics. a particular instance of a word, symbol, expression, sentence, or the like: . Compare type (def 8).

Idioms

1. by the same token, in proof of which. moreover; furthermore:
2. in token of, as a sign of; in evidence of:

adjective

1. serving as a token:
2. slight; perfunctory; minimal:

verb (used with object)

1. to be a token of; signify; symbolize.

Origin of token

before 900; Middle English; Old English tāc(e)n; cognate with German Zeichen, Old Norse teikn sign, mark. See teach

Examples for token

But, but … there was a token black girl in the background, Target cried in its defense!

“I would advise any candidate to assess their viability and not just do a token run,” said Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster.

Whoever is in need of help the world over, by that token has a claim on us.

And the women would slowly nod their heads in token of assent.

But Alice responded only by moving her head slowly, in token of refusal.

I wish she would; she could 'bear a message and a token,' as the song says.

Eventually, it was gifted to Czar Peter the Great as a token of goodwill between the Germans and Russians.

But before the former First Lady left the Obama Administration, the Tanzanian Ambassador wanted to give her a token of esteem.

And twice he had been oblivious to that token of their maturing understanding.

He said some current social media efforts “border on token activism.”