Symbolises vs Symbolisms - What's the difference?
symbolises | symbolisms |
(symbolise)
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To be symbolic of; to represent.
* 1852 CE: William and Robert Chambers, Chambers' Edinburgh Journal
As a verb symbolises
is third-person singular of symbolise.As a noun symbolisms is
plural of symbolism.symbolises
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Verb
(head)symbolise
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Alternative forms
* symbolize (US )Verb
(en-verb)- The crossed hammer and sickle symbolise the union of workers and peasantry in their fight for their rights.
- [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.