Word Finder - ikons

definition

An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.

synonyms

• graven image
• idol

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(especially Eastern Christianity) A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.

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(by extension) A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.

example

That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.

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A small picture that represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)

definition

A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons.

Thus, while one village would produce nothing but felt shoes, another would carve sacred images (ikons), and a third spin flax only, a fourth make wooden spoons, a fifth nails, a sixth iron chains, and so on.

There are, besides, a theological academy, founded in 1615; a society of church archaeology, which possesses a museum built in 1900, very rich in old ikons, crosses, &c., both Russian and Oriental; an imperial academy of music; university courses for ladies; a polytechnic, with 1300 students - the building was completed in 190o and stands on the other side of Old Kiev, away from the river.

A natural consecration also hallows objects fallen from heaven, like the holy shield of the Sabii, or the holy ikons or pictures "not made with hands" which abound in Russia.

The great fair for which it was formerly famous has lost its importance, but the town remains the centre of a variety of domestic trades - tailoring, the manufacture of leather, and the making of boots and small enamelled ikons (sacred images); it is also famous for its kitchen gardening and the export of pickled and dried vegetables and medical herbs.

He had their respect, if not their love; he is the hero of a thousand ballads; and his portrait still hangs among the ikons in the cottages of the Greek mountaineers.

While ikons of the saints are found in the churches there is no " graven image " apart from the crucifix.

A cross guards every well or spring; every home has its ikons or sacred pictures.

The principal of these trades are the weaving of carpets - about Tyumen; the making of wire sieves; the painting of ikons or sacred images; the making of wooden vessels and of the necessaries for the carrying trade about Tomsk (sledges, wheels, &c).; 2 Russian Encyclopaedic Dictionary, vol.