1. The act of representing something with a symbol
   - symbolizing

1. Represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols
   "The poet symbolises love in this poem"; "These painters believed that artists should symbolise"
   - symbolize 
2. Express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
   - typify, symbolize, stand for, represent

See also: symbol, symbolisation [Brit], symboliser [Brit]

Type of: figuration, intend, mean, represent

• American plaice
• American plan
• American plane
• American pulsatilla
• American quaking aspen
• American raspberry
• American rattlebox
• American red elder
• American red plum
• American red squirrel
• American redstart
• American Revised Version
• American Revolution
• American Revolutionary leader
• American Revolutionary War
• American robin
• American rock brake
• American sable
• American saddle horse
• carnelian
• carney
• carnify
• Carniolan bee
• carnival
• Carnivora