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The word "icon" comes from the Greek word "eikon" for "image".

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  1. noun An image; a representation.
  2. noun A representation or picture of a sacred or sanctified Christian personage, traditionally used and venerated in the Eastern Church.
  3. noun An important and enduring symbol: "Voyager will take its place ... alongside such icons of airborne adventure as The Spirit of St. Louis and [the] Bell X-1” (William D. Marbach).
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  • Next to this icon is a little snowflake/asterisk icon you can tap to get buttons for a link to a selected tweet, retweet, reply to the author, the author's info page, see the conversation thread, email it, or favorite it.
  • OZZPOT If memory serves, they said that it was because it didn't have an ear on it, and suggested it may have been unclear to me that the other object on the icon was an ear. —  MacUpdate - Mac OS X
  • The word "icon" comes from the Greek word "eikon" for "image". —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Between stock imagery, fonts, plug-ins, or. pdfs, I am downloading anywhere between 12-25 files a day onto my desktop and being able to preview the icon is a god send. —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • This icon is an RSS feed icon it highlights to visitors ... —  lipstick.com: celebrity news that matters to you
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  1. From Greek eikōn, from eikenai, to be like, seem.

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  1. from Latin icon, from Greek εἰκών, a likeness, image, portrait, similitude, semblance, phantom, from *εἰκειν, found only in perfect indicative ε\οικα, etc., be or look like, seem likely, seem fitting.
 

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/ˈaɪkɑn/
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