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Icon Picture Computer Noun Describe Important Symbol Thing

word icon
definition
noun
If you describe something or someone as an icon, you mean that they are important as a symbol of a particular thing.
Only Marilyn has proved as enduring a fashion icon.
...Picasso and the other icons of modernism.
...the greatest icon of this century.
An icon is a picture of Christ, his mother, or a saint painted on a wooden panel.
An icon is a picture on a computer screen representing a particular computer function. If you want to use it, you move the cursor onto the icon using a mouse .
inflections icons
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