IKONS Synonyms: 118 Similar and Opposite Words

icons

noun

variants also ikons

plural of icon

as in heroes

a person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, the Beatles, and other icons of pop culture

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as in symbols

a written or printed mark that is meant to convey information to the reader the player's remote control is very user-friendly as it doesn't use any icons that you haven't seen a million times before

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as in manifestations

a visible representation of something abstract (as a quality) cites Marlene Dietrich as an icon of old-time Hollywood glamour

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as in celebrities

a person who is widely known and usually much talked about a sports bar filled with photos of icons from football, basketball, and baseball

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as in pictures

a two dimensional design intended to look like a person or thing any icon of the Deity is regarded as blasphemous by adherents of that religion

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Recent Examples of icons The Dodgers have won 12 Cy Young awards, the most of any major league team, with franchise icons including Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Fernando Valenzuela, Orel Hershiser and Clayton Kershaw bringing home the hardware. —

Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2026 The food, music, history and culture here are unlike anywhere else in the world — and five days gives you enough time to hit the icons and still wander into something unexpected. —

Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 7 Apr. 2026 Two Orange County surfing culture icons will be honored at this year’s Surf Industry Member Association’s Waterman’s Ball, a prestigious gathering that recognizes influential wave riders and cultural icons who have helped shape the surfing world. —

Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 7 Apr. 2026 Since then, the brand has launched a menswear line and collaborated with style icons like Alexa Chung and Dakota Fanning. —

Jessica Sulima, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2026 Meet celebrities, industry icons, creators, artists and cosplayers and express your fandom and passion in this three-day convention. —

Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2026 But paleontology didn’t really get going until the 19th century, when fuller fossils were uncovered and experts started to call these massive lizard-looking things dinosaurs, said Vicky Coules, a researcher at the University of Bristol in the UK who studies how dinosaurs became visual icons. —

Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2026 Stoudemire joins a lineage of Jewish basketball icons in the Hall of Fame, including Sue Bird, who was inducted last year, Nancy Lieberman, Nat Holman, Barney Sedran, Max Friedman and Dolph Schayes — the only other Jewish player to have his number retired in the NBA. —

Jacob Gurvis, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2026 The top bar includes icons for triggering the various windows, a transport bar for recording and playback, and more icons for a count-off, a guitar tuner, loop recording, and a metronome. —

Jamie Lendino, PC Magazine, 31 Mar. 2026

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The show saw the heroes combine their powers to fight off the mysterious mercenary cult known as The Hand.

— Jack Dunn, Variety, 4 Apr. 2026
Ladytron willed themselves into existence some 25 years ago, writing their names in the residue of icy-hot heroes like Kraftwerk, Soft Cell, and Gina X.

— Jesse Dorris, Pitchfork, 2 Apr. 2026