Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: icon
IPA transcription: ['aɪkɑn]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: icon, ikon
    Meaning: a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church
  • Synonyms: picture, image, icon, ikon
    Meaning: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
  • Synonyms: icon
    Meaning: (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface
Usage examples
  • The crowd round the icon suddenly parted and pressed against Pierre.
  • Someone, a very important personage judging by the haste with which way was made for him, was approaching the icon.
  • At the summit of the hill they stopped with the icon; the men who had been holding it up by the linen bands attached to it were relieved by others, the chanters relit their censers, and service began.