something serving to represent or indicate some fact, event, feeling, etc.; sign: Black is a token of mourning.
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a characteristic indication or mark of something; evidence or proof: Malnutrition is a token of poverty.
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a memento; souvenir; keepsake: The seashell was a token of their trip.
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something used to indicate authenticity, authority, etc.; emblem; badge: Judicial robes are a token of office.
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Also called token coin. a stamped piece of metal, issued as a limited medium of exchange, as for bus fares, at a nominal value much greater than its commodity value.
anything of only nominal value similarly used, as paper currency.
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an item, idea, person, etc., representing a group; a part as representing the whole; sample; indication.
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Logic,Linguistics. a particular instance of a word, symbol, expression, sentence, or the like: A printed page might have twenty tokens of the single type-word “and.” Compare type(def. 8).