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Symbolise vs Symbolises - What's the difference?

symbolise | symbolises |

As adjectives the difference between symbolise and symbolises

is that symbolise is symbolized while symbolises is .

As a verb symbolise

is .

symbolise

English

Alternative forms

* symbolize (US )

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To be symbolic of; to represent.
    • The crossed hammer and sickle symbolise the union of workers and peasantry in their fight for their rights.
  • * 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.

    symbolises

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (symbolise)
    • ----

    symbolise

    English

    Alternative forms

    * symbolize (US )

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To be symbolic of; to represent.
    • The crossed hammer and sickle symbolise the union of workers and peasantry in their fight for their rights.
  • * 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.