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   i·con

   /ˈīˌkän/

   noun

   • 1. a painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches.
   • 2. a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration: "this iron-jawed icon of American manhood"
   • 3. a symbol or graphic representation on a screen of a program, option, or window, especially one of several for selection.
   • 4. a sign whose form directly reflects the thing it signifies, for example, the word snarl pronounced in a snarling way.

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in the sense ‘simile’): via Latin from Greek eikōn ‘likeness, image’. Current senses date from the mid 19th century onwards.

   Scrabble Points: 6

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