Icon
Icon noun - A person who is the object of extreme or uncritical devotion.
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Nearby Words: iconic, iconography, iconics
Work
Work noun - A literary, musical, or artistic production.
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- However, because "The Call of Cthulhu" became Lovecraft's most popular work, Cthulhu became the icon of Lovecraft's fictional universe, to the point that it's called the Cthulhu Mythos.
Source: Breakout Villain - Frank Miller was an icon of comics in the 1980s, with his work on Daredevil and Batman, with The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One redefining the character in the eyes of the mass media.
Source: Darth Wiki / Fallen Creator - The bus architecture represented by such icon is no longer in use, and current Ethernet interfaces don't even work like that anymore.
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Work and Icon. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/icon/work
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Work or Icon. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/icon/work.
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