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iconic
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Word definitions for iconic in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Late Latin iconicus , from Greek eikonikos "pertaining to an image," from eikon (see icon ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Relating to, or having the characteristics of, an icon. 2 Famously and distinctively representative of its type.
Usage examples of iconic.
If anything dismayed him it was his own emergence as the iconic genius of the Perihelion Foundation, or at least its scientific celebrity, poster child for the transformation of Mars.
Bazarov not only a general iconic image of the Nihilist that immediately passed into use, he created as well an image of the extrascientific implications of physiology.
He invented and implemented the first iconic network management prototype for DECnet networks.
When her image solidified again, her virtual head had been grafted onto the iconic body of Arnold Schwarzenegger, his biceps rippling.
Indeed, the map was riddled with the blue lines and blobs that represented rivers and lakes, along with the iconic green-fronds-on-blue that meant marshes and swamps.
For those unfamiliar with Struwwelpeter (I will assume everyone recognizes the beloved and equally iconic figure of Joey, dead this Easter at the age of forty-nine), he is the quintessential and terrifying, monstrous Bad Boy, frozen for all time at the front of the classroom while the teacher -- Auden's "terrible rector," perhaps ?
Somehow, he had made himself unpackageable, media-proof – possibly the very last star of any iconic stature to do so.