Icon vs. Idol

Iconnoun

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

Iconnoun

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

Iconnoun

A person or thing that is the best example of a certain profession or some doing.

Iconnoun

(computing) A small picture that represents something (such as an icon on a computer screen which when clicked performs some function.)

Iconnoun

(linguistics) A word, character, or sign whose form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also symbol and index.

Iconnoun

An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait.

Iconnoun

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.

Iconnoun

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

Iconnoun

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.

Iconnoun

any object of uncritical devotion.

Iconnoun

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.

Iconnoun

(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

Iconnoun

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

Iconnoun

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

Iconnoun

a devotional painting of Christ or another holy figure, typically executed on wood and used ceremonially in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches.

Iconnoun

a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration

Iconnoun

a symbol or graphic representation on a screen of a program, option, or window.

Iconnoun

a sign which has a characteristic in common with the thing it signifies, for example the word snarl pronounced in a snarling way.

Icon

An icon (from the Greek εἰκών eikṓn 'image, resemblance') is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, the Roman Catholic, and certain Eastern Catholic churches. They are not simply artworks; .

Idolnoun

A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.

Idolnoun

A cultural icon, or especially popular person.

Idolnoun

Popular entertainer; usually young, captivating, attractive; and often female, with an image of being close to fans.

Idolnoun

(obsolete) An eidolon or phantom; something misleading or elusive.

Idolnoun

An image or representation of anything.

Idolnoun

An image of a divinity; a representation or symbol of a deity or any other being or thing, made or used as an object of worship; a similitude of a false god.

Idolnoun

That on which the affections are strongly (often excessively) set; an object of passionate devotion; a person or thing greatly loved or adored.

Idolnoun

A false notion or conception; a fallacy.

Idolnoun

a material effigy that is worshipped as a god;

Idolnoun

someone who is adored blindly and excessively

Idolnoun

an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept

Idolnoun

an image or representation of a god used as an object of worship.

Idolnoun

a person or thing that is greatly admired, loved, or revered