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Superstar vs Icon - What's the difference?

superstar | icon |

As nouns the difference between superstar and icon

is that superstar is someone who has accumulated a vast amount of fame; a high-level celebrity while icon is an , symbol, picture, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.

superstar

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who has accumulated a vast amount of fame; a high-level celebrity.

    • Related terms

    * megastar

    icon

    English

    (wikipedia icon)

    Alternative forms

    * eikon, ikon

    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.

    • Derived terms

    * aniconic, aniconism * iconism

    Related terms

    * iconic * iconoclasm, iconoclast, iconoclastic * iconify * iconography * iconstasis

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