symbolic meanings
What symbols represent
Symbolic meanings are the associations and significance that objects, actions, or images carry beyond their literal sense.
A rose symbolizes love; a skull suggests death.
Literature, art, and religion traffic heavily in symbolic meanings: The white whale carries symbolic meanings of obsession and nature's indifference.
The phrase often appears when interpreting creative works or cultural practices.
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- metaphorImplied identity comparison
- dreamsInvoluntary sleep visions
- cultural heritageInherited collective traditions
- semioticsStudy of signs, symbols
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- dream loredream interpretation, dream symbols, prophetic dreams, dream books, dream analysis
- proverbsproverbs, sayings, maxims, adages, aphorisms
- folk wisdomproverb, folklore, folk sayings, saying, proverbs
- tribal folkloretribal legends, tribal lore, origin stories, ancestral stories, epic tales