"icon" is a correct word in written English.
This word can be used to refer to a visual representation of a person, idea, or object. For example, you could say, "The apple icon on my computer's desktop is a popular symbol of Apple computers."
The dredging is to make way for the ships as they weave their way through the Great Barrier Reef – a wondrous icon of the blue planet that doubles as the world's most iconic coal shipping lane.
Not just Russia's most popular politician, Putin is set to become an unlikely fashion icon as one brand launches a new collection of Putinwear.
But "she took an honourable icon that is seen in sporting venues everywhere and degraded it".
A landmark moment in his career, these shows saw Elvis shape-shift from teen icon into a white jumpsuit-wearing showman, and became the start of the Vegas period, which continued until his death on 16 August 1977.
And it gave us Zbigniew Cybulski, a great actor and a new generational icon.
Friends and colleagues would assume I was sulking – fretful about the budget, the traffic or the possibility that David Beckham would end up trotting around a football pitch for one last medley of complaints to the referee, misplaced passes and light tapping of the ankles of agile opponents as they raced by our national icon.
Cultured, cosmopolitan Sarajevo became the epicentre and the icon of this anguish.
Allin aimed to be the ultimate rock'n'roll degenerate, but as an icon of filth, Barlow has surpassed him.
No composer since can avoid the shadow of this great icon of the 20th century, and score after score by modern masters would be unthinkable without its model.
In recent years, Ginsburg, who was appointed to the supreme court by Bill Clinton in 1993, has become a feminist icon among many millennials and, as "the Notorious RBG", has spawned a number of memes.
A new comedy icon comes out of nowhere and turns out to be exactly what we never knew we always wanted.
