1. icon

noun. ['ˈaɪkɑːn'] a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface.

Rhymes with Icon

• ikon
• icahn

How do you pronounce icon?

Pronounce icon as ˈaɪkɑn.

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Sentences with icon

1. Noun, singular or mass
Right-click the icon for your smart card reader.

Quotes about icon

1. My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.
- Eugene Jarecki

2. If ruining the only religious icon I have leaves me vulnerable to Martian vampires, I'll have to risk it.
- Andy Weir, The Martian

3. By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.
- Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

2. icon

noun. ['ˈaɪkɑːn'] a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church.

3. icon

noun. ['ˈaɪkɑːn'] (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.