Symbolic Definition

sĭm-bŏlĭk
adjective
That serves as a symbol (of something)
Webster's New World
Serving as a particular instance of a broader pattern or situation; representative.
The new building is symbolic of the recent changes that have taken place in the neighborhood.
American Heritage
Of or expressed in a symbol or symbols.
Webster's New World
Characterized by symbolism.
Webster's New World

Referring to something with an implicit meaning.

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Origin of Symbolic

  • From French symbolique or directly from Latin symbolicus, from Ancient Greek συμβολικός (symbolikos, “of or belonging to a symbol")

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Symbolic Sentence Examples

  • There are several symbolic acts descriptive of the siege.

  • It will be shown later that all invariants, single or simultaneous, are expressible in terms of symbolic products.

  • Symbolic Identities.- For the purpose of manipulating symbolic expressions it is necessary to be in possession of certain simple identities which connect certain symbolic products.

  • Such a symbolic product, if its does not vanish identically, denotes an invariant or a covariant, according as factors az, bz, cz,...

  • We cannot even outline here the process of selection by which the symbolic meanings now stereotyped in the Roman Pontifical were arrived at.

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