English
Alternative spellings
symbolize (US)
Pronunciation
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Verb
en-verb|symbolis|ing
- To be symbolic of; to represent.
#: The crossed hammer and sickle symbolise the union of workers and peasantry in their fight for their rights.
Quotations
#* 1852 CE: William and Robert Chambers, Chambers' Edinburgh Journal
#*: [H]is heart swelled within him, as he sat at the head of his own table, on the occasion of the house-warming, dispensing with no niggard hand the gratuitous viands and unlimited beer, which were at once to symbolise and inaugurate the hospitality of his mansion.
Translations
trans-top|To be symbolic of; to represent
Danish: symbolisere
Dutch: symboliseren
Finnish: symboloida, merkitä, olla + genitive + vertauskuva
French: symboliser
German: symbolisieren
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Swedish: symbolisera
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fr:symbolise
vi:symbolise
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