symbolize
- to use symbols.
Origin of symbolize
Related Words for symbolize
exemplify, signify, indicate, suggest, mirror, typify, personify, epitomize, embody, mean, illustrate, connote, express, denote, betoken, show, symbol, emblematizeExamples from the Web for symbolize
Contemporary Examples of symbolize
But for some teens ISIS seems to symbolize power and purpose, a great drama promising deliverance from the humdrum.
She seems, if anything, to symbolize an even more incremental progressivism than President Obama.
The practice, which emerged during the eighth century, was meant to symbolize wealth and class.
Colorful inflated onion domes appeared to symbolize the birth of urbanization.
They chanted slogans and flashed four fingers, which has come to symbolize a pro-Morsi camp violently quashed by the authorities.
Historical Examples of symbolize
The combinations change as the soul that they symbolize changes.
Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New YorkLemuel Ely Quigg
What do Pindus and Ossa symbolize, and what exactly does their melting mean?
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'AmboisGeorge Chapman
It's to be an Anglo-American pageant, to symbolize the school.
The Jolliest School of AllAngela Brazil
These objects also symbolize metaphysical and cosmological truths.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish PhilosophyIsaac Husik
If that hadn't happened, something else would have, to symbolize you.
Free AirSinclair Lewis
symbolize
symbolise
- (tr) to serve as or be a symbol of
- (tr usually foll by by) to represent by a symbol or symbols
- (intr) to use symbols
- (tr) to treat or regard as symbolic or figurative
Word Origin and History for symbolize
c.1600, "to represent by a symbol," also "to be a symbol of," from French symboliser, from Modern Latin symbolizare, from symbolum (see symbol). Related: Symbolized; symbolizes; symbolizing.