Noun

(en noun)

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

A religious painting, often done on wooden panels.

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

That man is an icon in the business; he personifies loyalty and good business sense.

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

(linguistics) A type of noun whereby the form reflects and is determined by the referent; onomatopoeic words are necessarily all icons. See also (symbol) and (index).

Pictual representations of files, programs and folders on a computer.

Noun

(-)

What is said or reported; gossip, rumour.

* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , Book 1, ll. 651-4:

There went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long / Intended to create, and therein plant / A generation, whom his choice regard / Should favour […].

* 2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 23:

If the accused could produce a specified number of honest neighbours to swear publicly that the suspicion was unfounded, and if no one else came forward to contradict them convincingly, the charge was dropped: otherwise the common fame was held to be true.

One's reputation.

The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of.

* (William Shakespeare)

I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited.

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