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iconise

iconise is the non-Oxford British English form of iconize.

Meaning of iconize

Verb

iconize (third-person singular simple present iconizes, present participle iconizing, simple past and past participle iconized)

  1. (transitive) To form an image or likeness of someone.
  2. (transitive) To minimize (a window) on a computer screen, replacing it with a representative icon.

Forms of iconise

third-person singular presenticonises
present participleiconising
past participleiconised
pasticonised

Origin of iconise

From icon + -ise.

Questions about iconise

What is iconise the non-Oxford British English form of?
Iconise is the non-Oxford British English form of iconize.

Words near iconise in the dictionary

  1. iconify
  2. iconifying
  3. iconique
  4. iconisation
  5. iconisations
  6. iconise
  7. iconised
  8. iconises
  9. iconising
  10. iconism
  11. iconisms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: iconise (page history and authors); iconize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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