English Explanatory Dictionary

symbol

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
  2. A thing considered the embodiment or cardinal exemplar of a concept, theme, or other thing.
  3. A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index.
  4. A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith.
  5. The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes.
  6. That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
  7. Share; allotment.
  8. An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code.
  9. A signalling event on a communications channel; a signal that cannot be further divided into meaningful information.
verb
  1. To symbolize.

Pronunciation

sĭmbəl /ˈsɪmbəl/ en-us-symbol.ogg

Word forms

symbol symbols symboling symbolling symboled symbolled

Etymology

From French symbole, from Latin symbolus, symbolum (“a sign, mark, token, symbol, in Late Latin also a creed”), from Ancient Greek σύμβολον (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”), from συμβάλλω (sumbállō, “to throw together, dash together, compare, correspond, tally, come to a conclusion”), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw, put”).

Related words

diabolical symbolic symbolize symbolism punctuation

Derived words

anarchy symbol API service symbol at symbol biohazard symbol Blissymbol Blissymbols Cambrian symbol chemical symbol Christoffel symbol compound symbol copyleft symbol copyright symbol currency symbol eigensymbol infinity symbol intersymbol Jacobi symbol Kronecker symbol Legendre symbol Mars symbol multisymbol non-terminal symbol nonterminal symbol numero symbol peace symbol phonetic symbol Pochhammer symbol recycling symbol Schläfli symbol sex symbol status symbol stock symbol stock ticker symbol strephosymbolia subsymbol symbolatry symbolgram symbol group symbolify symbolisation symbolistic symbolization symbologenic symbologist symbology symboloid symbololatry symbolomania symbolophobia symbol pusher symbol pushing symbol-pushing symbolry symbol table terminal symbol ticker symbol trademark symbol typographical symbol Venus symbol

Translations

Albanian: simbol Arabic: رَمْز Arabic: شَارَة Arabic: شِعَار Armenian: խորհրդանիշ Armenian: սիմվոլ Asturian: símbolu Azerbaijani: simvol Azerbaijani: rəmz Azerbaijani: nişan Azerbaijani: əlamət Belarusian: сі́мвал Bengali: প্রতীক Bulgarian: си́мвол Burmese: အထိမ်းအမှတ် Catalan: símbol Chinese Mandarin: 象徵 /象征 Czech: symbol Danish: symbol Dutch: symbool Esperanto: simbolo Estonian: sümbol Finnish: symboli Finnish: merkki Finnish: tunnus French: symbole Galician: símbolo Georgian: სიმბოლო German: Symbol Greek: σύμβολο Hebrew: סֵמֶל Hindi: प्रतीक Hungarian: szimbólum Hungarian: jelkép Icelandic: tákn Japanese: 象徴 Japanese: シンボル Kazakh: рәміз Kazakh: символ Khmer: និមិត្តការណ៍ Khmer: និមិត្តរូប Korean: 상징 Korean: 심벌 Kyrgyz: символ Kyrgyz: белги Lao: ສັນຍາລັກ Latvian: simbols Lingala: elembo Lithuanian: simbolis Lunda: yinjikijilu Macedonian: симбол Malay: lambang Malay: simbol Malayalam: അടയാളം Malayalam: പ്രതീകം Mongolian: бэлэгдэл Mongolian: тэмдэг Mongolian: бэлэг
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