Noun: symbol
| Singular | symbol |
| Plural | symbols |
Sample Sentences
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"$" is the symbol for dollars in the US and some other countries.
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Chinese people use word symbols for writing.
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The lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience.
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The Apostles, Nicene Creed and the confessional books of Protestantism, such as the Augsburg Confession of Lutheranism are considered symbols.
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They do their work in the days of peace […] and come to pay their symbol in a war or in a plague. [1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:]
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The persons who are to be judged […] shall all appear to receive their symbol. [1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like symbol
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French symbole, from Latin symbolus, symbolum (“a sign, mark, token, symbol, in Late Latin also a creed”), from Ancient Greek σύμβολον (súmbolon, “a sign by which one infers something; a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign”), from συμβάλλω (sumbállō, “to throw together, dash together, compare, correspond, tally, come to a conclusion”), from σύν (sún, “with, together”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw, put”). See: French Nouns '
symbole', Latin Nouns '
symbolus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
σύμβολον'.
Verbs referencing "symbol"
Swedish Nouns
symbol, Belarusan Nouns
сымбаль.