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1、 A religious image usually painted on a small wooden panel: idol.
2、 Emblem, symbol.
🌱Henry Ford's assembly line captured the imagination of the world, and he and his company became icons of industrial capitalism. 🌳In the Eastern Orthodox church, much importance is given to icons, usually small portraits on wood—sometimes with gold-leaf paint—of Jesus, Mary, or a saint, which hang in churches and in the houses of the faithful. The Orthodox church favors icons partly because they communicate directly and forcefully even to uneducated people. They are regarded as sacred; some believers actually pray to them, and many believe that icons have carried out miracles. The common modern uses of icon grew out of this original sense. The fact that Orthodox icons have a symbolic role led to icon being used to mean simply "symbol." Because of the icon's sacredness, the term also came to mean "idol." And once we began to use idol to refer to pop-culture stars, it wasn't long before we began using icon the same way. But for the little computer-desktop images that you click on, the older meaning of "symbol" is the one we're thinking of. iconic 1、 Symbolic.
2、 Relating to a greatly admired and successful person or thing.
🌱The 1963 March on Washington was the iconic event in the history of the civil-rights movement, now familiar to all American schoolchildren. 🌳The original meaning of iconic was essentially "resembling an icon," but today it more often seems to mean "so admired that it could be the subject of an icon." And with that meaning, iconic has become part of the language of advertising and publicity; today companies and magazines and TV hosts are constantly encouraging us to think of some consumer item or pop star or show as first-rate or immortal or flawless—absolutely "iconic"—when he or she or it is actually nothing of the kind. iconoclast 1、 A person who destroys religious images or opposes their use.
2、 A person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions.
🌱She's always rattling her friends by saying outrageous things, and she enjoys her reputation as an iconoclast. 🌳When the early books of the Bible were being written, most of the other Middle Eastern religions had more than one god; these religions generally encouraged the worship of idols of the various gods, which were often regarded as magical objects. But in the Ten Commandments given to Moses in the Old Testament, God prohibits the making of "graven images" or "idols" for worship, proclaiming that the Jews are to worship only one God, who is too great to be represented in an idol. However, by the 6th century A.D., Christians had begun to create religious images in order to focus the prayers of the faithful. Opposition to icons led to the IconoclasticControversy in A.D. 726, when, supported by the pope, iconoclasts began smashing and burning the images in churches and monasteries （clast- comes from the Greek word meaning "to break"）. In time, peace was restored, and almost all Christians have since accepted depictions of Jesus, Mary, and the saints. Today an iconoclast is someone who constantly argues with conventional thinking, refusing to "worship" the objects of everyone else's "faith." iconography 1、 The imagery and symbolism of a work of art or an artist.
2、 The study of artistic symbolism.
🌱Today scholars pore over the advertisements in glossy magazines, studying the iconography for clues to the ads' hidden meanings. 🌳If you saw a 17th-century painting of a man writing at a desk with a lion at his feet, would you know you were looking at St. Jerome, translator of the Bible, who, according to legend, once pulled a thorn from the paw of a lion, which thereafter became his devoted friend? And if a painting showed a young woman reclining on a bed with a shower of gold descending on her, would you recognize her as Danaë, locked up in a tower to keep her away from the lustful Zeus, who then managed to gain access to her by transforming himself into golden light （or golden coins）? An iconographic approach to art can make museum-going a lot of fun—and amateur iconographers know there are also plenty of symbols lurking in the images that advertisers bombard us with daily.
2、 Emblem, symbol.
🌱Henry Ford's assembly line captured the imagination of the world, and he and his company became icons of industrial capitalism. 🌳In the Eastern Orthodox church, much importance is given to icons, usually small portraits on wood—sometimes with gold-leaf paint—of Jesus, Mary, or a saint, which hang in churches and in the houses of the faithful. The Orthodox church favors icons partly because they communicate directly and forcefully even to uneducated people. They are regarded as sacred; some believers actually pray to them, and many believe that icons have carried out miracles. The common modern uses of icon grew out of this original sense. The fact that Orthodox icons have a symbolic role led to icon being used to mean simply "symbol." Because of the icon's sacredness, the term also came to mean "idol." And once we began to use idol to refer to pop-culture stars, it wasn't long before we began using icon the same way. But for the little computer-desktop images that you click on, the older meaning of "symbol" is the one we're thinking of. iconic 1、 Symbolic.
2、 Relating to a greatly admired and successful person or thing.
🌱The 1963 March on Washington was the iconic event in the history of the civil-rights movement, now familiar to all American schoolchildren. 🌳The original meaning of iconic was essentially "resembling an icon," but today it more often seems to mean "so admired that it could be the subject of an icon." And with that meaning, iconic has become part of the language of advertising and publicity; today companies and magazines and TV hosts are constantly encouraging us to think of some consumer item or pop star or show as first-rate or immortal or flawless—absolutely "iconic"—when he or she or it is actually nothing of the kind. iconoclast 1、 A person who destroys religious images or opposes their use.
2、 A person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions.
🌱She's always rattling her friends by saying outrageous things, and she enjoys her reputation as an iconoclast. 🌳When the early books of the Bible were being written, most of the other Middle Eastern religions had more than one god; these religions generally encouraged the worship of idols of the various gods, which were often regarded as magical objects. But in the Ten Commandments given to Moses in the Old Testament, God prohibits the making of "graven images" or "idols" for worship, proclaiming that the Jews are to worship only one God, who is too great to be represented in an idol. However, by the 6th century A.D., Christians had begun to create religious images in order to focus the prayers of the faithful. Opposition to icons led to the IconoclasticControversy in A.D. 726, when, supported by the pope, iconoclasts began smashing and burning the images in churches and monasteries （clast- comes from the Greek word meaning "to break"）. In time, peace was restored, and almost all Christians have since accepted depictions of Jesus, Mary, and the saints. Today an iconoclast is someone who constantly argues with conventional thinking, refusing to "worship" the objects of everyone else's "faith." iconography 1、 The imagery and symbolism of a work of art or an artist.
2、 The study of artistic symbolism.
🌱Today scholars pore over the advertisements in glossy magazines, studying the iconography for clues to the ads' hidden meanings. 🌳If you saw a 17th-century painting of a man writing at a desk with a lion at his feet, would you know you were looking at St. Jerome, translator of the Bible, who, according to legend, once pulled a thorn from the paw of a lion, which thereafter became his devoted friend? And if a painting showed a young woman reclining on a bed with a shower of gold descending on her, would you recognize her as Danaë, locked up in a tower to keep her away from the lustful Zeus, who then managed to gain access to her by transforming himself into golden light （or golden coins）? An iconographic approach to art can make museum-going a lot of fun—and amateur iconographers know there are also plenty of symbols lurking in the images that advertisers bombard us with daily.
ICON comes from the Greek eikon, which led to the Latin icon, both meaning "image." Though the icon- root hasn't produced many English words, the words that is does appear in tend to be interesting.🌸