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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ikon
▶noun variant spelling of icon (sense 1).
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
icon /ˈʌɪkɒn, -k(ə)n/
▶noun
- 1 (also ikon) a devotional painting of Christ or another holy figure, typically on wood, venerated in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches.
- 2 a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration.
- 3 Computing a symbol or graphic representation on a VDU screen of a program, option, or window.
- 4 Linguistics a sign which has a characteristic in common with the thing it signifies, for example the word snarl pronounced in a snarling way.
– origin C16 (in the sense ‘simile’): via L. from Gk eikōn ‘image’.
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