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Examples

• All

• An icon, absolutely an icon in the podcasting world.

• You need to create an image or an icon or a brand that represents you.

  Tom Ferry

• This is who they have held up as an icon for young black girls.

• Do you know what an icon you are for black people?

• Our guest today is an American icon, actor Richard Dreyfuss.

• Beautiful Billie Jean King, an icon we should all know.

• David Beckham, a footballing icon, Manchester United legend.

  David Beckham: Infamous (2022)

• My guest today is a writing icon, Joyce Carroll Oates.

• Joining these vibrant cultural elements is another singular New Orleanian icon: the jazz funeral.

  Academic text (2012)

• She's an icon.

  Fire Island (2022)

Synonyms

P

picture

vsicon

∞ 1.0

An image like a drawing or photograph that shows something

is the same idea but emphasizes surface production and symbolic use

I

image

vsicon

∞ 1.0

A picture showing a person or thing

is similar but specifically used as a clear representational mark on a surface

S

symbol

vsicon

625 3.5

An object that stands for an idea or feeling

is a visual stand-in too but focuses more on depicting subjects

V

visual

vsicon

76 3.5

A picture or graphic that explains something

is similar but often used as a compact symbolic depiction on a surface

R

representation

vsicon

74 3.5

A picture or model that shows what something looks like

is narrower, referring specifically to visual, surface-produced portrayals

E

emblem

vsicon

42 4.0

A visible thing with a design that represents a group, idea or quality

can also symbolize, but usually portrays persons, scenes, or objects visually

D

depiction

vsicon

30 4.0

A picture or other image that shows what something looked like

is similar but tends to be a compact surface-based visual

L

likeness

vsicon

27 4.1

A picture or statue made to show how a person looked

is similar but often used as a simplified small representation

V

visual image

vsicon

4 3.8

A picture in your mind of something you have seen

is external and produced on a surface rather than only imagined mentally

P

pictogram

vsicon

3 4.4

A simple picture that shows a word, idea or object on signs and maps

is like this but can be more detailed and less schematic

S

symbolic representation

vsicon

1 6.3

A visible thing like a flag that stands for an idea you cannot see

is more about visual portrayal than conventional standing for ideas

P

pictorial representation

vsicon

1 4.3

A picture that shows something, like a scene or object

is the same visual depiction yet often used as a small symbolic image

G

graphic symbol

vsicon

• Texting

3.9

A small picture on a screen that shows an idea, thing, feeling or action

overlaps in being a small sign but is more general visual representation

How Representative

emblem

42 4.0

icon

117 3.9

illustration

66 2.8

image

∞ 1.0

sketch

150 2.5

Surface Forms

Etymology