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1. The use of symbols to convey meaning
   - symbolization
    
2. Something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
   "the eagle is a symbolisation of the United States"
   - symbol, symbolization, symbolic representation
    
3. The practice of investing things with symbolic meaning
   - symbolism, symbolization

Derived forms: symbolisations

See also: symbolise [Brit]

Type of: import, meaning, pattern, practice, representational process, significance, signification