Associations to the word «Ikon»

Wiktionary

IKON, noun. An icon (religious image)

Dictionary definition

IKON, noun. A visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them".
IKON, noun. A conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church.

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.