a painting of Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches
基督画像;圣人画像(尤指传统手法木板画,在拜占庭等东正教会受膜拜,亦作为祈祷用品)。
a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol of something
代表,典型
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this iron-jawed icon of American manhood .美国坚毅男子的典型形象。
【计算机】 图标,图符。
【语 言学】 类象符号(如“咆哮”一词以咆哮方式发音)。
"mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘simile’): via Latin from Greek