Symbolic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É’lɪk

Origin

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

Full definition of symbolic

Adjective

1. Pertaining to a symbol.
• 2013-06-28, Joris Luyendijk, Our banks are out of control, Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic ….  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
2. Referring to something with an implicit meaning.

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