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Learning English from the News

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Iconic, Very Famous, Represents an Idea

The word iconic is an adjective, but it's helpful if we break it down and look at that first ar icon. Now we see the word icon in a couple of contexts, don't we? Rob? Can you tell us? Yes. The thing that connects those two icons is that they represent something. And so with this word iconic as an adjective, what we mean to is that something represents a certain era, a certain idea.

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