Icon definition

1. What does being an icon mean?
2. Can you call a person an icon?
3. What is an example icon?
4. What makes an icon?

What does being an icon mean?

: a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere. a civil rights icon. an actor and fashion icon.

Can you call a person an icon?

Word forms: icons

If you describe something or someone as an icon, you mean that they are important as a symbol of a particular thing. ... only Marilyn has proved as enduring a fashion icon. An icon is a picture of Christ, his mother, or a saint painted on a wooden panel.

What is an example icon?

If I describe somebody as an icon, I am saying that they are important as a symbol of something. For example, Picasso and Marilyn Monroe were icons of modernism and mid-20th-century Hollywood respectively.

What makes an icon?

It can be referred to a person, symbol, image or picture that is widely admired for its conspicuous feature or allegiance. In art, icon mostly refers to a religious painting (usually Jesus Christ or another holy/ religious figure). This painting or 'image' of Christ was the original meaning of the icon.