English-Dutch translations for symbol

• symbool
  Polen is een symbool voor Europa. Poland is a symbol for Europe.
  Het is een symbool van levende doden. It is a symbol of dead men walking.
  Dat symbool was uiteraard de . The symbol was, of course, the .
• zinnebeeld
  De grensoverschrijdende solidaire ondersteuning van de zwakke door de sterke regio's is het zinnebeeld van de Europese eenwording. Support given by stronger regions to the weaker ones, in a spirit of solidarity and without reference to national boundaries, is symbolic of European unity.

Definition of symbol

• A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object
• A thing considered the embodiment of a concept or object
• A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index
• The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes
• Share; allotment
• An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code
• To symbolize

Examples

• $ is the symbol for dollars in the US and some other countries.
• Chinese people use word symbols for writing.
• The lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience.
• The Apostles, Nicene Creed and the confessional books of Protestantism, such as the Augsburg Confession of Lutheranism are considered symbols.

Related words

• symbolic
• symbolically
• symbolizing
• symbolical
• symbolism
• symbolize
• symbolise
• Blissymbols
• symbolics