- something serving to represent or indicate some fact, event, feeling, etc.; sign: Black is a token of mourning.
- a characteristic indication or mark of something; evidence or proof: Malnutrition is a token of poverty.
- a memento; souvenir; keepsake: The seashell was a token of their trip.
- something used to indicate authenticity, authority, etc.; emblem; badge: Judicial robes are a token of office.
- a stamped piece of metal, issued as a limited medium of exchange, as for bus fares, at a nominal value much greater than its commodity value.
- anything of only nominal value used in exchange for goods or services, as paper currency.
- virtual token.
- an item, idea, etc., representing a group; a part as representing the whole; sample; indication: The religious movement was an exhibition of latent energy, and a token of what may take place at some future day.
- a person, especially a member of a minority group, who has been hired, admitted, enrolled, etc., to forestall charges of prejudice or discrimination.
- an object, as a disk or figure, used in various board games for marking a player's position or for keeping score.
- a particular instance of a word, symbol, expression, sentence, or the like: A printed page might have twenty tokens of the single type-word “and.”
- serving as a token: At the end of the field trip each child received a token gift to take home as a memento.The HR complaint was filed by a man who felt his hiring had been meant to add a token male to an all-female staff.
- slight; nominal; minimal: token resistance;a token amount.
- by the same token,
- moreover; furthermore: She has a talent as a painter, and by the same token has a sharp eye for detail.
- in proof of which: The study examined the possible effects of stress on health and, by the same token, IQ and test scores.
- as a sign of; in evidence of: a ring in token of his love.
- an indication, warning, or sign of something
- a symbol or visible representation of something
- something that indicates authority, proof, or authenticity
- a metal or plastic disc, such as a substitute for currency for use in slot machines
- a memento
- a gift voucher that can be used as payment for goods of a specified value
- as a matter of form only; nominal
- a symbol regarded as an individual concrete mark, not as a class of identical symbols
- an individual instance: if the same sentence has different truth-values on different occasions of utterance the truth-value may be said to attach to the sentence-token
- moreover and for the same or a similar reason
- to act or serve as a warning or symbol of; betoken
