They symbolize a people and represent national pride.
These treaties represent a great achievement, both for their practical benefits and in what they symbolize.
Cut out pictures from magazines that represent or symbolize your essential characteristics and qualities.
Not too bad for an animal long thought to symbolize evil.
In this performance the inverted bowl is intended to symbolize the vault of heaven.
These symbols are important, but they should not take away focus from what they symbolize.
The barricades show, he writes, how people choose and symbolize the way they voice their discontent and collective hopes.
Another online realm where avatars and personas are created to symbolize personality traits is poker.
The images in the cave are mainly cows painted with big udders, apparently to symbolize fertility.
Solvers are invited to symbolize the word in each of those eight thematic squares.
British Dictionary definitions for symbolize
symbolize
/ˈsɪmbəˌlaɪz/
verb
1.
(transitive) to serve as or be a symbol of
2.
(transitive) usually foll by by. to represent by a symbol or symbols
3.
(intransitive) to use symbols
4.
(transitive) to treat or regard as symbolic or figurative
Derived Forms
symbolization, symbolisation, noun
Word Origin and History for symbolize
v.
c.1600, "to represent by a symbol," also "to be a symbol of," from French symboliser, from Modern Latin symbolizare, from symbolum (see symbol). Related: Symbolized; symbolizes; symbolizing.