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iconic

adj
/aɪˈkɒnɪk/UK/aɪˈkɑnɪk/US/aɪˈkɒnɪk/CA/aɪˈkɔnɪk/

Etymology

From Late Latin īconicus, from Ancient Greek εἰκονικός (eikonikós). By surface analysis, icon + -ic.

  1. derived from εἰκονικός
  2. borrowed from īconicus

Definitions

  1. Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an icon.

  2. Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity.

    • an iconic move in martial arts

  3. Famously and distinctively representative of its type.

    • For younger musicians, Coltrane’s death became one of those iconic events that stays vividly in the mind.
    • She angrily turned, giving me my favorite view, that iconic view of a woman from the rear.
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    1. Representing something

      Representing something; symbolic.

      • an iconic gesture in sign language
      • A portrait of a person is to a considerable extent iconic, but is not completely so since the painted canvas does not have the texture of the skin, or the capacities for speech and motion, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for iconic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA