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iconic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective iconic has 1 sense
- iconic(a = adj.pert) Array - relating to or having the characteristics on an icon; Array Derived forms noun icon3, noun icon2, noun icon1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
iconic, adj.
1 of or having the nature of an image or portrait.
2 (of a statue) following a conventional type.
3 Linguistics that is an icon.
1 of or having the nature of an image or portrait.
2 (of a statue) following a conventional type.
3 Linguistics that is an icon.
Derivative
iconicity n. (esp. in sense 3).
Etymology
L iconicus f. Gk eikonikos (as ICON)
ROGET THESAURUS
iconic
Representation
N representation, representment, imitation, illustration, delineation, depictment, imagery, portraiture, iconography, design, designing, art, fine arts, painting, sculpture, engraving, photography, cinematography, radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy, personation, personification, impersonation, drama, picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, X-ray photo, movie film, movie, tracing, scan, TV image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit TV, copy, drawing, sketch, drought, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan), ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram, represent, representing, representative, illustrative, represented, imitative, figurative, iconic, like, graphic, cinquecento quattrocento, trecento.
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