icon

英 [ˈaɪkɒn]

美 [ˈaɪkɑːn]

n. 图标; 图符; 崇拜对象; 偶像; 圣像

复数：icons　

Collins.1 / BNC.6668 / COCA.4354

牛津词典

noun

图标；图符
a small symbol on a computer screen that represents a program or a file
1. Click on the printer icon with the mouse.
  用鼠标点击打印机图标。
崇拜对象；偶像
a famous person or thing that people admire and see as a symbol of a particular idea, way of life, etc.
1. Madonna and other pop icons of the 1980s
  麦当娜以及其他20世纪80年代的流行音乐偶像
2. a feminist/gay icon (= sb that feminists/gay people admire)
  女权主义者的 / 同性恋者的偶像
圣像
a painting or statue of a holy person that is also thought of as a holy object

N-COUNT 偶像;代表人物
If you describe something or someone as anicon, you mean that they are important as a symbol of a particular thing.
1. Only Marilyn has proved as enduring a fashion icon.
  只有玛丽莲是常青的时尚偶像。
2. ...Picasso and the other icons of modernism.
  毕加索和现代主义的其他代表人物
3. ...the greatest icon of this century.
  本世纪最伟大的偶像人物
圣像(如基督、圣母马利亚等)
Aniconis a picture of Christ, his mother, or a saint painted on a wooden panel.
图标
Aniconis a picture on a computer screen representing a particular computer function. If you want to use it, you move the cursor onto the icon using a mouse.

noun

a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel
Synonym:ikon
a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
1. they showed us the pictures of their wedding
2. a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them
Synonym:pictureimageikon
(computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface