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symbolist | symbolise |

As an adjective symbolist

is of or pertaining to the Symbolist movement in late 19th-century and early 20th-century European arts and literature.

As a noun symbolist

is one who employs symbols.

As a verb symbolise is

to be symbolic of; to represent.

symbolist

English

Adjective

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  • (arts, literature) Of or pertaining to the Symbolist movement in late 19th-century and early 20th-century European arts and literature
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 15, author=Randy Kennedy, title=When Picasso and Braque Went to the Movies, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The general picture that has emerged is one of Cubism bubbling up out of a thick Parisian stew of symbolist poetry, Cézanne, cafe society, African masks, absinthe and a fascination with all things mechanical and modern, mostly airplanes and automatons. }}

    Related terms

    *symbolism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who employs symbols.

    • See also

    *

    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.