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icon |ˈīˌkän| noun a painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches. • a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something: this iron-jawed icon of American manhood. • Computing a symbol or graphic representation on a video display terminal of a program, option, or window, esp. one of several forselection. • Linguistics a sign whose form directly reflects the thing it signifies, for example, the word snarl pronounced in a snarling way.  ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (in […]