phallic symbol

American  

noun

Psychoanalysis.

1. any object, as a cigar or skyscraper, that may broadly resemble or represent the penis, especially such an object that symbolizes power, as an automobile.

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phallic symbol Cultural  

1. A symbol (see also symbol) of the penis.

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Etymology

Origin of phallic symbol

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Upon another coin struck by Augustus we see a crescent with a star or radiate sun within its horns, the ancient phallic symbol adopted by the followers of the prophet Muhammad centuries later.

From The Non-Christian Cross An Enquiry into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion by Parsons, John Denham