| query | Something that is s_______ of a person or thing is regarded or used as a symbol of them.Something that is symbolic of a person or thing is regarded or used as a symbol of them. Yellow clothes are worn as symbolic of spring. Each circle symbolically represents the whole of humanity. |
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| word | symbolic |
| full-definition | adjective If you describe an event, action, or procedure as symbolic, you mean that it represents an important change, although it has little practical effect . A lot of Latin-American officials are stressing the symbolic importance of the trip. The move today was largely symbolic. It was a simple enough gesture, but symbolically important. Something that is symbolic of a person or thing is regarded or used as a symbol of them. Yellow clothes are worn as symbolic of spring. Each circle symbolically represents the whole of humanity. Symbolic is used to describe things involving or relating to symbols. ...symbolic representations of landscape. |
| inflections | symbolicallysymbolically |
| cefr-level | C1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1
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