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indicia

indicia noun: indications or signs. Also the plural of indicium.

Noun (1)

indicia

  1. (formal) Indications or signs.
    • This document has none of the indicia of a contract of adhesion.
    • Anna looked at the soul of New York and recognized that if you distract people with shiny objects, with large wads of cash, with the indicia of wealth, if you show them the money, they will be virtually unable to see anything else.2018 May 28, Jessica Pressler, “Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It”, in New York Magazine
  2. Distinctive markings.
    • Spiderman,^([sic]) The Thing, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, the distinctive names and likenesses thereof, and all related indicia are trademarks of Marvel Characters, Inc.2003, Scott Bukatman, Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century

Noun (2)

indicia (plural indicias)

  1. A preprinted marking on a mailpiece which shows that postage has been paid by the sender.

Also used as

indicia is also the plural of indicium.

Forms of indicia

pluralindicias

Origin of indicia

From Latin indicia, plural of indicium (“a notice, information, discovery, sign, mark, token”), from index (“index”); see index.

Questions about indicia

What does indicia mean?
Indicia means indications or signs.
What part of speech is indicia?
Indicia is a noun.
What is the plural of indicia?
The plural of indicia is indicias.

Words near indicia in the dictionary

  1. indicavits
  2. indicaxanthin
  3. indice
  4. indices
  5. indices verborum
  6. indicia
  7. indicial
  8. indicias
  9. indicible
  10. indicine
  11. indicium

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