SYMBOLIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does symbolize mean?
• SYMBOLIZE (verb)
The verb SYMBOLIZE has 2 senses:
1. express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
2. represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols
Familiarity information: SYMBOLIZE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SYMBOLIZE (verb)
Meaning:
Express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
stand for; symbolize; represent; symbolise; typify
Context example:
What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?
Hypernyms (to "symbolize" is one way to...):
intend; mean (mean or intend to express or convey)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "symbolize"):
be; embody; personify (represent, as of a character on stage)
epitomise; epitomize; typify (embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
symbolise; symbolize
Context examples:
The poet symbolizes love in this poem / These painters believed that artists should symbolize
Hypernyms (to "symbolize" is one way to...):
represent (describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
