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Icon vs. Celebrity

Icon and Celebrity Definitions

Icon

An image; a representation.

Celebrity

One who is widely known and of great popular interest.

Icon

A representation or picture of a sacred or sanctified Christian personage, traditionally used and venerated in the Eastern Church.

Celebrity

Fame or popular renown.

Icon

An important and enduring symbol
"The disposable lighter is an icon of the throwaway mentality that began to take shape in the years following World War II" (Susan Freinkel).

Celebrity

(obsolete) A rite or ceremony.
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Icon

One who is the object of great attention and devotion; an idol
"He is ... a pop icon designed and manufactured for the video generation" (Harry F. Waters).

Celebrity

(uncountable) Fame, renown; the state of being famous or talked-about.

Icon

(Computers) A picture on a screen that represents a specific file, directory, window, option, or program.

Celebrity

A person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population for his or her success or accomplishments; a famous person.

Icon

An image, symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.

Celebrity

Celebration; solemnization.
The celebrity of the marriage.
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Icon

A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.

Celebrity

The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of Washington.
An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy.

Icon

(by extension) A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.
That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.

Celebrity

A person of distinction or renown; - usually in the plural; as, he is one of the celebrities of the place.

Icon

(graphical user interface) A small picture that represents something.
Click the loudspeaker icon to configure audio settings.

Celebrity

A widely known person;
He was a baseball celebrity
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Icon

A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons.

Celebrity

The state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed

Icon

An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.
Netherlands whose names and icons are published.

Icon

A sacred picture representing the Virgin Mary, Christ, a saint, or a martyr, and having the same function as an image of such a person in the Latin Church. The term is used especially for a highly stylized and conventionalized representation of a holy person, rich in symbolism and used in devotional services in many of the eastern Orthodox churches, especially the Greek and Russian Orthodox Churches.

Icon

A symbol, especially a symbol whose form suggests its meaning or the object it represents.

Icon

A graphical symbol for a data object whose form suggests the nature or function of the object; especially, such a symbol as viewed on the computer screen.

Icon

Any object of uncritical devotion.
The former congresswoman and Vice-Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro is still an icon to many party members.

Icon

An outstanding example of something which has come to represent the class of things to which it belongs; a paragon; used of persons as well as objects.

Icon

(computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface

Icon

A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface;
They showed us the pictures of their wedding
A movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them

Icon

A conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church

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