Icon and Totem

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Icon noun - A person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion.

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Totem and icon are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Totem" instead a noun "Icon".

Nearby Words: iconic, iconography, iconics

Totem noun - A device, design, or figure used as an identifying mark.

Usage example: the bald eagle, that universally recognized totem of our country

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Icon and totem are semantically related. You can use "Icon" instead a noun "Totem".

However, some Goa'uld ruled over humans as God Emperors, most of whom used some kind of totem animal as an icon, and the Big Bad for the first several seasons happened to use a snake as his icon.

Source: Scaled Up

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