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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
symbol/ˈsɪmbl/

▶noun

1 a mark or character used as a conventional representation of something, e.g. a letter standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation.

2 a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.

▶verb (symbols, symbolling, symbolled; US symbols, symboling, symboled) archaic symbolize.

– origin ME (denoting the Apostles' Creed): from L. symbolum ‘symbol, creed (as the mark of a Christian)’, from Gk sumbolon ‘mark, token’, from sun- ‘with’ + ballein ‘to throw’.

'symbol' also found in these Oxford entries:

a - Ac - actinium - Ag - agma - Al - aluminium - Am - americium - ankh - antimony - apple - Ar - argon - arrow - arsenic - As - ash - astatine - asterisk - At - at sign - Au - B - Ba - ba gua - barium - BB - Be - berkelium - beryllium - Bh - Bi - bismuth - Bk - blatant - bohrium - boron - Br - bromine - C - c - Ca - cadmium - caesium - calcium - californium - cap - carbon - caste mark

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