Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible. See Synonyms at sign.
A printed or written sign used to represent an operation, element, quantity, quality, or relation, as in mathematics or music.
Psychology An object or image that an individual unconsciously uses to represent repressed thoughts, feelings, or impulses: a phallic symbol.
tr.v.
sym·boled, sym·bol·ing, sym·bols
To symbolize.
[Middle English symbole, creed, from Old French, from Latin symbolum, token, mark, from Greek sumbolon, token for identification (by comparison with a counterpart) : sun-, syn- + ballein, to throw; see gwelə- in Indo-European roots.]
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