symbolic meaning
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsymbolicandmeaning
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symbolic
adjective
uk/sɪmˈbɒl.ɪk/us/sɪmˈbɑː.lɪk/
representing ...
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meaning
noun
uk/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/us/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
The meaning of something is what it expresses ...
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(Definition ofsymbolicandmeaningfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsymbolic meaning
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Likesymbolicmeaning, value is contested by members of society.
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Here, the fantastical sphinx, herself a freak of nature, becomes the emblem of good design, abstract and laden withsymbolicmeaning.
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It fails to capture thesymbolicmeaningof the article as an embodiment of modernist ideology and the meaning attributed to the legal standard.
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Precisely because these objects were mostly of limited economic value, theirsymbolicmeaningwas all the more relevant.
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Historians have analysed the disciplinary and economic functions, and the legal, religious andsymbolicmeaningof these paths, from a variety of perspectives.
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All societies are truly innovating in terms of creating and re-creating a distinctive material culture of their own defined by social andsymbolicmeaning.
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Therefore, we have a prima facie obligation to respect, adhere to, and protectsymbolicmeaning, at least when doing so contributes to a good life.
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Given the now overwhelming evidence that the deposition of animal remains in iron age contexts was imbued withsymbolicmeaning, this seems slightly ironic.
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At the beginning of the opera, he alludes to thesymbolicmeaningof the props by describing the machines as magical, gigantic and fantastical.
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The stake had asymbolicmeaning, as well.
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This involved carefully choosing materials based onsymbolicmeaningas well as functionality.
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The first relates to an examination of itssymbolicmeaning, the second to the mechanism of string-puppet control itself.
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From this perspective, organs are bereft of anysymbolicmeaningand do not have any significance for the person.
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As asymbolicmeaning, a title classifies the cases according to the kinds of conflicts.
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A judgment about thesymbolicmeaningof a policy requires an historical intimacy with the society - an attunement with the "pulse" of society.
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How are we to interpret thesymbolicmeaningof name change under the process of sedentarization?
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Both planning and architecture carry built-insymbolicmeaningthat has a didactic political message, especially national capital and state architecture.
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But the adequate representation of early music as found in manuscripts is the goal, and there is no othersymbolicmeaningof music other than the symbolic representation on paper.
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And desire for land is historically grounded in a perennial insecurity about economic survival as well as dynamic cultural interpretations about thesymbolicmeaningof land.
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And why did specific motifs - say lilies, monkeys or papyrusreed-marguerita hybrids - gain onesymbolicmeaningrather than another?
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