icon

noun

• 1 (also ikon) a painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches.

• 2a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something:this iron-jawed icon of American manhood

• 3 Computing a symbol or graphic representation on a screen of a program, option, or window, especially one of several for selection.

• 4 Linguistics a sign whose form directly reflects the thing it signifies, for example, the word snarl pronounced in a snarling way.