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  1. noun Something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention, especially a material object used to represent something invisible. See Synonyms at sign.
  2. noun A printed or written sign used to represent an operation, element, quantity, quality, or relation, as in mathematics or music.
  3. noun Psychology An object or image that an individual unconsciously uses to represent repressed thoughts, feelings, or impulses: a phallic symbol.
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  1. Middle English symbole, creed, from Old French, from Latin symbolum, token, mark, from Greek sumbolon, token for identification (by comparison with a counterpart) : sun-, syn- + ballein, to throw; see gwelə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French symbole = Spanish símbolo = Portuguese symbolo = Italian simbolo = Dutch simbool = G. Swedish Danish symbol, from Latin symbolus, symbolum, Middle Latin also simbolus, simbolum, a sign, mark, token, symbol (rarely also as symbola, a contribution: see symbol), Late Latin also ecclesiastical a creed, symbol, from Greek σύμβολος, σύμβολον, a sign by which one knows or infers something, a mark, token, badge, ticket, tally, check, a signal, watchword, outward sign, LGr. ecclesiastical a confession of faith, a sacramental element), from συμβάλλειν, put together, compare, correspond, tally, come to a conclusion, from σύν, together, + βάλλειν, put, throw. Cf. symbol.
  2. from symbol, n.
  3. from Old French symbole, from Latin symbola, sumbola, from Greek συμβολή, a contribution to a common entertainment, also the meal or entertainment itself, literally ‘a coming or putting together,’ from συμβάλλειν, put together, mid. come together: see symbol.
 

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