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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

アイコン

Pronunciation / Transliteration: aikon

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Icon/ˈaɪ.kɒn/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"デスクトップのアイコンをクリックしてください。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as a worthy, well-established symbol of a specified quality or culture.

    "She became a fashion icon for an entire generation."
  2. 2

    A small graphic representation on a computer screen of a program, file, or function.

    "Click on the desktop icon to open the application."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin icon, from the Greek eikōn meaning 'likeness' or 'image'. Historically used in Eastern Christianity to describe a devotional painting of Christ or another holy figure, its meaning expanded in the 20th century to include a symbol representing something else, and further extended in computing for graphical interface symbols.

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