iconic image

collocation in English

meaningsoficonicandimage

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iconic
adjective
uk
/aɪˈkɒn.ɪk/us
/aɪˈkɑː.nɪk/
very famous or popular, especially being considered to represent particular opinions or a ...
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image
noun
uk
/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/
a picture in your mind or an idea of how someone or ...
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(Definition oficonicandimagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoficonic image

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Bowie was not the sole creator of the glam rock image, but it is hisiconicimagethat is most often visually referenced.
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Since dreams and mental images are apparently pictorial in nature, this seems to show that we are, after all, capable of creating an internaliconicimage.
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This became aniconicimageof the planet as a marble of cloud-swirled blue ocean broken by green-brown continents.
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It became theiconicimagefor the non-violence movement.
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He was seated in a prominent camera position and his mohawk unexpectedly became aniconicimageof the landing.
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The mosticonicimageof women in hakama is the miko or shrine maidens who assist in maintenance and ceremonies.
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His irony-tinged voice and signature droll delivery, gallows humour,iconicimageand mannerisms became instantly recognisable and were often the subject of parody.
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It was normal for double-sided altarpieces in this period to have aniconicimageon the front and narrative images on the back.
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It has served as aniconicimagefor the city and the nation ever since.
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She is reputed to have had paintings of her burnt that did not match theiconicimageshe wished to be shown.
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Through its use by many legendary samurai women, the naginata has been propelled as theiconicimageof a woman warrior.
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It is all about finding simplicity, a singulariconicimage, something that evokes emotion from the viewer.
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The distinctive diamond-shaped towers became aniconicimageof early radio.
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But rather than simply punctuating the episode with aniconicimageof the porker soaring through the air, the writers actually develop a story into which the joke fits.
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Doyle gained a degree of notice from the connection to theiconicimage.
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The classes result in a collection of pieces or one large, collectively created artwork (a selectediconicimageof the town or region) that can remain in the host city.
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Theiconicimageof gold mining for many is gold panning, which is a method of separating flakes of pure gold from river sediments due to their great density.
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Booker writes that the graph became the supremeiconicimagefor all those engaged in the battle to save the world from global warming.
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Aniconicimage, the pine at its centre has been described as growing in the national ethos as our one and only tree in a country of trees.
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