iconic
- 1Famous and easy to recognize as a clear example of its kind.
The yellow school bus is an iconic part of growing up in America.
Tourists lined up to take photos of the iconic old bridge.
Similaremblematic
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- 2Special to one person or thing, so that it marks who or what it is.
The boxer ended the fight with his iconic left hook.
Her iconic laugh made everyone in the room turn around.
Similarsignature
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- 3Having to do with an icon, or like an icon.
The shrine is full of iconic images of the gods, but the older temple has no images at all.
Her paintings of saints have an iconic look, flat and golden like old church pictures.
Oppositeaniconic
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- 4Showing or standing for something, the way a sign or picture does.
In sign language, the sign for "drink" is iconic because it looks like lifting a cup.
A street map is iconic, since its lines follow the shapes of the roads.
Similarimitative, representational
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Origin
From Late Latin īconicus and Greek eikonikós; in English it is icon + -ic.