Figure
Figure noun - A person who is widely known and usually much talked about.
Usage example: figures from the worlds of sport and entertainment will be guests at the White House dinner
Icon
Icon noun - A person who is widely known and usually much talked about.
Usage example: a sports bar filled with photos of icons from football, basketball, and baseball
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Synonyms for Icon
Figure is a synonym for icon in image topic. You can use "Figure" instead a noun "Icon", if it concerns topics such as representation, thing.
Nearby Words: iconic, iconography, iconics
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| beloved | beloved figure | beloved icon |
| old | old figure | old icon |
| public | public figure | public icon |
| original | original figure | original icon |
| Other adjectives: single, prominent, popular, small, real, big, evil, blue, little, tiny, main, respected, important, famous, key, new, major, heroic, religious, legendary, giant. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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By that time, she had firmly secured her status as a pop culture figure and icon.
Source: Music / Britney Spears - Audrey Hepburn these days is held up as a fashion icon for her thin willowy figure.
Source: Fans Prefer the New Her -
Kingdom of Loathing uses a little icon of a stick figure◊ with a drooping biceps to represent the effects of Wussinessnote -3 Muscle.
Source: Flexing Those Non-Biceps
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Icon and Figure. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/figure/icon
Figure & Icon. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/figure/icon>.
Icon or Figure. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/figure/icon.
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