a devotional painting of Christ or another holy figure, typically executed on wood and used ceremonially in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches

a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration

this iron-jawed icon of American manhood

a symbol or graphic representation on a screen of a program, option, or window

a sign which has a characteristic in common with the thing it signifies, for example the word snarl pronounced in a snarling way