Library / English Dictionary

ICONIC

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or having the characteristics on an icon

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

icon (a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church)

Derivation:

icon (a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church)

icon (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface)

icon ((computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface)

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 Context examples: 

Subsequent eradication efforts have been necessary to protect the iconic finches.

(A decade after the predators have gone, Galapagos Island finches are still being spooked, University of Cambridge)