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Symbol

noun

An arbitrary sign (written or printed) that has acquired a conventional significance.

Something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible. Synonyms: symbolic representation, symbolisation, symbolization.

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"Symbol" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Dervish's reed pipe, symbol of the sighing absent lover (i.e. the soul parted from the Creator) so famed by the Mullah-i-Rum and ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton

... in the following way: "The dawn of a new life is beginning for you. In this dawn let the sign of the cross, the symbol of the sufferings and the ...

— The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 • Various

... a man makes when he loses himself in a desert, or roams from city to city—as Oedipus, the speaker of this verse, was destined to wander, blind and asking charity. What a picture does this line suggest of the mind as a wilderness of intricate paths, wide as the universe, which is here made its symbol; a world within a world which he who seeks some knowledge with respect to what he ought to do searches throughout, as he would search the external universe for some valued thing which was hidden from him upon ...

— Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley • Mary W. Shelley

... discreetly as they walked along, and the moment they had plunged into the grove, he would raise her hand from time to time, as he spoke, and kiss it fervently. It was cool and firm, a beautiful symbol of her beautiful body, and he was racked with a wildness of longing by the side of which the language of Cupid sounds like the pipe of a ...

— Too Old for Dolls - A Novel • Anthony Mario Ludovici

... left her, she flung herself face downwards on the divan. "Oh, dicky, will you hold your horrid little tongue?" But as she sobbed aloud, the canary, symbol of invincible Propriety, rocked on his perch and shook over her his piercing and ...

— The Divine Fire • May Sinclair

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