Synonyms for symbols

Grammar : Noun

Spell : sim-buh l

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɪm bəl

Top 10 synonyms for symbols

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Définition of symbols

Origin : early 15c., "creed, summary, religious belief," from Late Latin symbolum "creed, token, mark," from Greek symbolon "token, watchword" (applied c.250 by Cyprian of Carthage to the Apostles' Creed, on the notion of the "mark" that distinguishes Christians from pagans), literally "that which is thrown or cast together," from syn- "together" (see syn-) + bole "a throwing, a casting, the stroke of a missile, bolt, beam," from bol-, nominative stem of ballein "to throw" (see ballistics).
The sense evolution in Greek is from "throwing things together" to "contrasting" to "comparing" to "token used in comparisons to determine if something is genuine." Hence, "outward sign" of something. The meaning "something which stands for something else" first recorded 1590 (in "Faerie Queene").

noun letter, character, sign of written communication

Example sentences :

Above his head are the three symbols of the Moon, the Sun, and the planet Venus.
Extract from : « The Babylonian Legends of the Creation » by British Museum

But, tonight, he was not seeing these symbols of material superiority.
Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius

Knitted, in her own stitches and her own symbols, it will always be as plain to her as the sun.
Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens

These things we have passed by reverently, as symbols of a people's trust in its kind.
Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White

Every alternate page was in the phonetic Indian symbols, of which more hereafter.
Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White

But in his mood of revolt it suited him to confuse the names and the symbols.
Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford

Such are in this picture the simpler, yet deeper, symbols, that all who look may read.
Extract from : « Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti » by T. Hall Caine

The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men.
Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Possessed himself by a heroic passion, he uses matter as symbols of it.
Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Monomaniacs intersperse their writings with illustrations and symbols.
Extract from : « Criminal Man » by Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

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