icon
noun
a picture or symbol that appears on a screen and is used to represent a file, account, application, etc..
icons
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pluralof icon.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It spans photography’s history and tells the nation’s story through daguerreotypes, cabinet-card photos, modern portraits and more, featuring images of American icons like Abraham Lincoln, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, W.E.B.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
Ball first laid down roots in the property when he began renting the unit from former Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton, one of the city’s legendary NFL icons.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
Rolling Stones icons Mick Jagger and Keith Richards visited before a concert a decade prior, and in 2004, rapper Shifty Shellshock described it to The Times as feeling “like where the Sopranos would go.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
With China's economy still struggling to recover from the pandemic, even global fashion icons are beginning to feel the pinch as consumers turn instead to the second-hand market or buy upstart new homegrown brands.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
There were precious few opportunities for young black men in the segregated America of the 1920s, yet through music these two men became icons.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
