Hypertext Webster Gateway: "icon"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Icon \I"con\, n. (Gr. Ch.)
A sacred picture representing the Virgin Mary, Christ, a
saint, or a martyr, and having the same function as an image
of such a person in the Latin Church.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Icon \I"con\ ([imac]"k[o^]n), n. [L., fr. Gr. e'ikw`n.]
An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.
Netherlands whose names and icons are published.
--Hakewill.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
icon
n 1: (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
2: a visual representation of an object or scene or person
produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of
their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected
so rapidly that the eye integrates them" [syn: {picture},
{image}, {ikon}]
3: a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden
panel; venerated in the Eastern Church [syn: {ikon}]
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