- the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.
- a set or system of symbols.
- symbolic meaning or character.
- the principles and practice of symbolists in art or literature.
- a movement of the late 19th century in French art and literature.
- the use of any of certain special figures or marks of identification to signify a religious message or divine being, as the cross for Christ and the Christian faith.
- the representation of something in symbolic form or the attribution of symbolic meaning or character to something
- a system of symbols or symbolic representation
- a symbolic significance or quality
- a late 19th-century movement in art that sought to express mystical or abstract ideas through the symbolic use of images
- any symbolist interpretation of the Eucharist
