Symbolise

Alternative forms

• symbolize (US)

Origin

From Middle French symboliser

Full definition of symbolise

Verb

1. To be symbolic of; to represent.The crossed hammer and sickle symbolise the union of workers and peasantry in their fight for their rights.
• 1852 CE: William and Robert Chambers, Chambers' Edinburgh JournalHis heart swelled within him, as he sat at the head of his own table, on the occasion of the house-warming, dispensing with no niggard hand the gratuitous viands and unlimited beer, which were at once to symbolise and inaugurate the hospitality of his mansion.