Usually means: Representation of meaning through form.
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We found 57 dictionaries that define the word symbol:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. symbol: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. symbol: Merriam-Webster
  3. symbol: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. symbol: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. symbol: Collins English Dictionary
  6. symbol: Vocabulary.com
  7. Symbol, symbol: Wordnik
  8. symbol: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. symbol: Wiktionary
  10. symbol: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. symbol: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. symbol: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. symbol: Dictionary.com
  14. symbol: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. symbol: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Symbol (Lisp), Symbol (TV series), Symbol (album), Symbol (chemical element), Symbol (chemistry), Symbol (choir), Symbol (computing), Symbol (data), Symbol (disambiguation), Symbol (film), Symbol (font), Symbol (formal), Symbol (liturgical theology), Symbol (logic), Symbol (mathematics), Symbol (metric system), Symbol (number theory), Symbol (programming), Symbol (typeface), Symbol: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Symbol: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. symbol: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. symbol: Rhymezone
  20. Symbol (nt), symbol: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. symbol: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. symbol: FreeDictionary.org
  23. symbol: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. symbol: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. symbol: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. symbol: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Symbol: Literary Terms
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  5. SYMBOL: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Symbol: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. symbol: Finance-Glossary.com
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. symbol: Legal dictionary
  8. Symbol: Financial dictionary
  9. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Symbol: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Symbol (semiotics), symbol: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. symbol: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. symbol, symbol, symbol: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  5. Symbol (semeiotic), Symbol (semiotics), symbol: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SYMBOL: Acronym Finder
  3. SYMBOL: Masonic Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. symbol: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. symbol: Printed Circuit Design and Manufacturing Glossary

(Note: See symboled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
noun:  A thing considered the embodiment or cardinal exemplar of a concept, theme, or other thing.
noun:  (linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index.
noun:  A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith.
noun:  (crystallography) The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes.
noun:  (obsolete) That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
noun:  (obsolete) Share; allotment.
noun:  (programming) An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code.
noun:  (telecommunications) A signalling event on a communications channel; a signal that cannot be further divided into meaningful information.
verb:  To symbolize.

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