ikon

I1K5O1N1

A form of icon — An image, symbol, picture, portrait, or other representation, usually as an object of religious devotion.

Less commonScrabble 8

Meanings

nounikon (plural ikons)

plural ikons

  1. alternativeAlternative form of icon (religious image).

    The walls themselves were gold and set with ikons and various religious motifs in bright hues.

    1965, Attila Zohar, Kings Cross Black Magic, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 123

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

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

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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