symbolic figure
Meaning-laden image personified
A symbolic figure is a person, character, or representation that embodies an idea, quality, or concept larger than itself.
Uncle Sam is a symbolic figure of the United States; the Grim Reaper represents death.
The term applies both to real people who come to represent movements or eras and to invented characters created to personify abstractions: Martin Luther King became a symbolic figure of the civil rights movement.
- emblemRepresentational sign or device
- iconPictorial screen symbol
- mascotGroup's symbolic figure
- spirit animalPersonal animal representation
- allegorySymbolic tale with deeper meaning
personification · avatar · totem · golden calf · figurehead · archetype · folk hero · patron saint · metaphor · representation · idol · effigy · statue · monument · torch bearer · guiding light · cipher · sign
- morality playsEveryman, morality play, morality tale, Mankind, vice
- Pandora mythPandora, Pandora's box, hope, Zeus, Prometheus
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