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noun
1.
something serving to represent or indicate some fact, event, feeling, etc.; sign: Black is a token of mourning.
2.
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.
4.
something used to indicate authenticity, authority, etc.; emblem; badge: Judicial robes are a token of office.
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EXPANDAlso 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.
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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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COLLAPSELogic, 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).
verb (used with object)
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to be a token of; signify; symbolize.
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
adjective
Idioms10.
serving as a token: a token gift; a token male on an all-female staff.
11.
slight; perfunctory; minimal: token resistance.
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by the same token,
a.
in proof of which.
b.
moreover; furthermore: She has a talent as a painter, and by the same token has a sharp eye for detail.
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in token of, as a sign of; in evidence of: a ring in token of his love.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English tāc(e)n; cognate with German Zeichen, Old Norse teikn sign, mark. See teach
before 900; Middle English; Old English tāc(e)n; cognate with German Zeichen, Old Norse teikn sign, mark. See teach
Related forms
pre·to·ken, noun, verb (used with object)
Synonyms
10. symbolic.
10. symbolic.
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Word Origin & History
token
O.E. tacen "sign, symbol, evidence" (related to tæcan "show, explain, teach"), from P.Gmc. *taiknan (cf. O.S. tekan, O.N. teikn "zodiac sign, omen, token," O.Fris., M.Du. teken, Du. teken, O.H.G. zeihhan, Ger. zeichen, Goth. taikn "sign, token"), from PIE base *deik- "to show" (see
EXPAND teach). Meaning "coin-like piece of stamped metal" is first recorded 1598. The adj. meaning "nominal" is from 1915, from the noun. In integration sense, first recorded 1960; tokenism is first recorded 1962. Original sense of "evidence" is retained in by the same token (1463), originally "introducing a corroborating evidence."
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