# noun. - a painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches. - a person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration. * this iron-jawed icon of American manhood - a symbol or graphic representation on a screen of a program, option, or window, especially one of several for selection. * None - a sign whose form directly reflects the thing it signifies, for example, the word snarl pronounced in a snarling way. * None