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单词 iconic
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Definition of iconic in English:

iconic

adjective ʌɪˈkɒnɪkaɪˈkɑnɪk
  • 1Relating to or of the nature of an icon.

    he became an iconic figure for directors around the world
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And the famous shopfront cover design has disappointingly been replaced with something less iconic.
    • Martin Luther King Jr. and Che Guevara had achieved the iconic status of martyrs by this date.
    • Indeed, some of them commemorate iconic figures from a club's history.
    • Old friends came from many parts of the country to pay their respects and remember one of the iconic figures of the showband era.
    • Monroe creates an iconic figure as Sugar and Tony Curtis's impersonation of Cary Grant is a total delight.
    • In this sense he's an heir apparent to iconic figures like Dylan or Johnny Cash.
    • Paradoxically, though, it is difficult to envisage a fully iconic sign.
    • The show's stars have similarly been elevated to iconic status.
    • The elusive unique selling point would also provide the city with an iconic image that would be used to brand Southampton for visitors.
    • Chapman's life has been threatened many times for killing one of pop music's most iconic figures.
    • Architects' drawings of a huge, iconic building, featuring a turf roof planted with herbs, are due to be released today.
    • The intimacy of signifier and signified in the iconic sign negates the distance which defines phonetic language.
    • Many of the photographs published by Life have become iconic in American history.
    • After all, from The Godfather to The Sopranos the gangster has become the iconic figure in American popular culture.
    • To many fans of Canadian music, the name Michael Burgess evokes an appreciation bordering the iconic.
    • Contrary to what is often believed, Britain possessed many such iconic constitutional and legal documents in the past.
    • The credit titles are a work of art, emphasising the iconic nature of this black hero.
    • Where is the iconic building of the 20th century in the Lake District?
    • You must be aware that you are an iconic figure in American letters.
  • 2(of a classical Greek statue) depicting a victorious athlete in a conventional style.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • According to Pliny, these received 'iconic' statues in which 'the likeness was fashioned from the limbs of the athletes themselves'.
    • Though only the victor who had won three times was allowed an iconic statue.

Derivatives

  • iconically

  • adverb
    • For more than four decades, the superpowers competed across a host of dimensions - militarily, technologically, ideologically, economically, culturally, and iconically (as in space and sport).
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A grand sense of confidence accompanies the new materialism, and is exemplified by the towering steel needle, the Dublin Spike, which stands iconically in the very heart of the capital.
      • Love, like its iconically titled predecessor, Paradise, is simultaneously an intriguing flirtation with the mystery-novel form and an unsettling meditation on the ideas we think define us.
      • Of the 11 omissions, the most astonishing of all has to be Honky Tonk Women - a song which is surely as iconically Stones-like as it gets.
      • In earlier paintings at the museum, motifs borrowed from magazines - a raised black fist, a somber portrait - are iconically placed amid rollicking abstract forms suggesting graffiti tags.
  • iconicity

  • noun ʌɪkəˈnɪsɪti
    • In 1999 she chose to lend her hard-earned, carefully honed iconicity to Max Factor.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Traditionally, in linguistics, iconicity is understood in terms of a perceived resemblance between signifier and signified, between phonological structure and semantic structure, between sound and meaning.
      • Zidane's iconicity is not just about economic fetishism that marks the celebrity stature of most sporting icons of Western capitalist countries.
      • Messaris presented the first comprehensive theory of visual persuasion, in which he utilizes the three semiotic concepts of iconicity, indexicality, and syntactic indeterminacy and applies them to persuasive images.
      • A simplistic understanding of realism as intensified iconicity was implicit in the modernist critique of realist art as false and deceptive - an art of illusions portraying illusions.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin iconicus, from Greek eikonikos, from eikōn 'likeness, image'.

Rhymes

anachronic, animatronic, bionic, Brythonic, bubonic, Byronic, canonic, carbonic, catatonic, chalcedonic, chronic, colonic, conic, cyclonic, daemonic, demonic, diatonic, draconic, electronic, embryonic, euphonic, harmonic, hegemonic, histrionic, homophonic, hypersonic, ionic, ironic, isotonic, laconic, macaronic, Masonic, Miltonic, mnemonic, monotonic, moronic, Napoleonic, philharmonic, phonic, Platonic, Plutonic, polyphonic, quadraphonic, sardonic, saxophonic, siphonic, Slavonic, sonic, stereophonic, subsonic, subtonic, symphonic, tectonic, Teutonic, thermionic, tonic, transonic, ultrasonic
 
 

Definition of iconic in US English:

iconic

adjectiveaɪˈkɑnɪkīˈkänik
  • 1Relating to or of the nature of an icon.

    language is not in general an iconic sign system
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Indeed, some of them commemorate iconic figures from a club's history.
    • The intimacy of signifier and signified in the iconic sign negates the distance which defines phonetic language.
    • Contrary to what is often believed, Britain possessed many such iconic constitutional and legal documents in the past.
    • The credit titles are a work of art, emphasising the iconic nature of this black hero.
    • Paradoxically, though, it is difficult to envisage a fully iconic sign.
    • The show's stars have similarly been elevated to iconic status.
    • After all, from The Godfather to The Sopranos the gangster has become the iconic figure in American popular culture.
    • Where is the iconic building of the 20th century in the Lake District?
    • And the famous shopfront cover design has disappointingly been replaced with something less iconic.
    • Monroe creates an iconic figure as Sugar and Tony Curtis's impersonation of Cary Grant is a total delight.
    • Architects' drawings of a huge, iconic building, featuring a turf roof planted with herbs, are due to be released today.
    • Martin Luther King Jr. and Che Guevara had achieved the iconic status of martyrs by this date.
    • To many fans of Canadian music, the name Michael Burgess evokes an appreciation bordering the iconic.
    • The elusive unique selling point would also provide the city with an iconic image that would be used to brand Southampton for visitors.
    • Many of the photographs published by Life have become iconic in American history.
    • In this sense he's an heir apparent to iconic figures like Dylan or Johnny Cash.
    • Chapman's life has been threatened many times for killing one of pop music's most iconic figures.
    • You must be aware that you are an iconic figure in American letters.
    • Old friends came from many parts of the country to pay their respects and remember one of the iconic figures of the showband era.
    1. 1.1 (of a classical Greek statue) depicting a victorious athlete in a conventional style.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Though only the victor who had won three times was allowed an iconic statue.
      • According to Pliny, these received 'iconic' statues in which 'the likeness was fashioned from the limbs of the athletes themselves'.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Latin iconicus, from Greek eikonikos, from eikōn ‘likeness, image’.

 
 
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