symbolize

Verbs

  • (v) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol
    • What does the Statue of Liberty symbolize?
    stand for, represent, symbolise, typify,
  • (v) represent or identify by using a symbol; use symbols
    • The poet symbolizes love in this poem
    • These painters believed that artists should symbolize
    symbolise,

Synonyms

stand for represent symbolise typify

Words of close approximity

symbolic
symbolise symbolism symbolist
symbolizer