英语词汇“symbolic”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	symbolic
释义	sym·bol·ic I. \(ˈ)sim\|bälik, -lēk\ adjective Etymology: Late Latin symbolicus, from Greek symbolikos, from symbolon symbol + -ikos -ic 1. : of or relating to a symbol : being a symbol < the symbolic books of a church > < a symbolic diagram > < barren hills, symbolic of the hardy race reared among them > < the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonial Massachusetts as the codfish — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > 2. a. : using, employing, or exhibiting a symbol : expressed in symbols < symbolic inscriptions > < symbolic writers > b. : consisting of a symbol < a symbolic signature > 3. often capitalized : of or relating to a lodge of freemasonry (as in the York rite) < symbolic degrees > < symbolic lodge > 4. a. : proceeding by means of symbols : substituting abstract representations for concrete objects < symbolic operations > b. : characterized by or terminating in symbols instead of the things symbolized < symbolic thinking > 5. : of, relating to, or being a sequence of phonemes occurring in a group of words connected with a common usually vague feature of meaning but not necessarily implying imitation of a sound in nature < in flash, flame, flare, flicker, and flimmer, the symbolic fl- conveys the sense of light in motion > < in bounce, pounce, and trounce, -ounce conveys the symbolic sense of rapid movement > — distinguished from onomatopoeic 6. : functioning as a culturally meaningful phenomenon in the life of a people < a dance ritual with symbolic rather than abstract, mimetic, or purely personal importance > II. noun (-s) 1. : something that is symbolic — usually used with the < the symbolic may lose itself in unintelligibility — John Dewey > 2. [German symbolik, from symbol creed (from Late Latin symbolum) + -ik -ics, from Greek -ikē, feminine of -ikos -ic] : symbolics 1
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