Added 9 October 2026
symbolic
adjective
Latin root: symbolicus Wiktionary
adjective Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). More about symbolic at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- Pertaining to a symbol.
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Implicitly representing or referring to another thing.
a symbolic gesture
Origin
From French symbolique or directly from Latin symbolicus, from Ancient Greek συμβολικός (sumbolikós, “of or belonging to a symbol”), equivalent to symbol + -ic.
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