Usually means: Symbolic representation, widely recognized, significant.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. icon, icon-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. icon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. icon, icon-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. icon, icon-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. icon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Icon, icon, iCon: Wordnik
  7. icon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. icon: Wiktionary
  9. icon, icon-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. icon (ikon): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. icon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. icon, icon-: Dictionary.com
  13. icon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. icon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ICON (microcomputer), Icon (Benighted album), Icon (Billy Currington album), Icon (Billy Ray Cyrus album), Icon (Bryan Adams album), Icon (Cher album), Icon (Gary Allan album), Icon (George Strait album), Icon (Ice Cube album), Icon (Icon album), Icon (Ja Rule album), Icon (Jaden Smith song), Icon (Joe Cocker album), Icon (John Lennon album), Icon (Josh Turner album), Icon (Limp Bizkit album), Icon (Lynyrd Skynyrd album), Icon (Madcon album), Icon (Megadeth album), Icon (Michael Jackson album), Icon (Mike Oldfield album), Icon (Nirvana album), Icon (Paradise Lost album), Icon (Queen album), Icon (Ringo Starr album), Icon (Rush album), Icon (Sheila E. album), Icon (Stargate SG-1), Icon (Vince Gill album), Icon (Wetton and Downes album), Icon (album series), Icon (architecture magazine), Icon (band), Icon (comics), Icon (computer), Icon (computing), Icon (disambiguation), Icon (film), Icon (lifestyle magazine), Icon (novel), Icon (programming language), Icon (roller coaster), Icon (secular), Icon (yacht), Icon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Icon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. icon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. icon: Rhymezone
  19. icon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. icon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ICON: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. icon: Free Dictionary
  23. icon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. icon: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. icon, icon-: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. icon: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  4. icon-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Broadcast Media Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Icon, icon: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. icon: Netlingo
  3. icon, icon: CCI Computer
  4. Icon: Cybernetics and Systems
  5. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  6. icon: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  7. Icon: Dictionary of Programming Languages
  8. Icon: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  9. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  10. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  11. Data Formats and Their Sugggested File Extensions (No longer online)
  12. Icon (art), Icon (religion), Icon (semiotics), icon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Icon (art), Icon (religion), Icon (semeiotic), Icon (semiotics), icon: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ICON: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

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

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. icon: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. I.C.O.N, Icon, Icon: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  2. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  4. icon: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

(Note: See iconic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An image, symbol, picture, portrait, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.
noun:  (religion, especially Eastern Christianity) A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.
noun:  (by extension) A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
noun:  (graphical user interface) A small picture that represents something.
noun:  (Internet, informal) An image used to represent a user; an avatar or profile picture.
noun:  (linguistics, semiotics) A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons.
noun:  Acronym of index currency option note, a type of financial instrument.

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