Icon \i"con\ (i"kôn), n. [L., fr. Gr. e'ikw`n.]

1. (Comp.) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface
2. (a) A conventional religious picture painted in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church; (b) a sacred picture representing the Virgin Mary, Christ, a saint, or a martyr, and having the same function as an image of such a person in the Latin Church
3. An image or representation; a portrait or pretended portrait

   Netherlands whose names and icons are published --Hakewill