- a small symbol on a computer or smartphone screen that represents a program or a file
- Click on the printer icon with the mouse.
- Tap the app icon on your phone to open it.
Extra ExamplesTopics Computersb2- Did you click on the icon next to the name of the file?
- I dragged the icon into the recycle bin.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- desktop
- folder
- network
- …
- click on
- double-click on
- right-click on
- …
- a famous person or thing that people admire and see as a symbol of a particular idea, way of life, etc.
- Madonna and other pop icons of the 1980s
- a feminist/gay icon (= somebody that feminists/gay people admire)
- Sandra has become a style icon, for the fashion world particularly.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- national
- popular
- cultural
- …
- (also ikon)(in the Orthodox Church) a painting or statue of a holy person that is also thought of as a holy objectTopics Religion and festivalsc2, Artc2
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘simile’): via Latin from Greek eikōn ‘likeness, image’. Current senses date from the mid 19th cent. onwards.
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