Symbolize
['sɪmbəlaɪz]
Definition
(verb.) represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols; 'The poet symbolizes love in this poem'; 'These painters believed that artists should symbolize'.
Typed by Cecil--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To have a resemblance of qualities or properties; to correspond; to harmonize.
(v. i.) To hold the same faith; to agree.
(v. i.) To use symbols; to represent ideas symbolically.
(v. t.) To make to agree in properties or qualities.
(v. t.) To make representative of something; to regard or treat as symbolic.
(v. t.) To represent by a symbol or symbols.
Typist: Ruth
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Prefigure, typify, emblematize, be symbolical of.
Typist: Nigel
Examples
- Then they had symbolized what she was gaining, now they stood for what she was giving up. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Words differ among themselves in their power to suggest images of the thing symbolized. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- To my mind it symbolizes a view of the state which we are outgrowing, and throws into relief the view towards which we are struggling. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Stacey