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US
/sɪmˈbɑɫɪk/
]
[ UK /sɪmbˈɒlɪk/ ]
[ UK /sɪmbˈɒlɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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serving as a visible symbol for something abstract
the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish
a crown is emblematic of royalty -
relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols
symbolic operations
symbolic thinking
symbolic logic -
using symbolism
symbolic art
How To Use symbolic In A Sentence
- The ceremony has great symbolic significance.
- The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.
- Smith who was against the League and Jones who was against Article X, and Brown who was against Mr. Wilson and all his works, each for his own reason, all in the name of more or less the same symbolic phrase, register a vote _against_ the Democrats by voting for the Public Opinion
- Tenements, rookeries, and cheap rooming districts exercised a huge symbolic power over the public imagination as centres of vice, squalor, drunkenness, traffic in sex and stolen goods, and general depravity.
- She contrasts materials, symbolic objects and images in a way that begins to reveal hidden emotions and aspects of identity.
- Even Lord of the Flies - which I love as a metaphor for many, many things, like the savagery of humanity - treats the children more as symbolic figures.
- By comparison, the current hunger strike - in which 12 of the 13 were being force-fed as of Friday - seems almost symbolic.
- The major difference is that in Shakespeare the symbolic opposition between the world of sober morality and that of holiday freedom is normally made internal to the play.
- These serve as billboards for symbolic displays.
- Conversely the lighting of a candle may be symbolically significant if it denotes bringing of light, that is, relief from suffering or enlightenment.
