All 7 Uses

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Now, two years later, he strode among the young boys of Camp Pendleton, an icon who was willing to wade once more into the horrors of battle at their helm.
Chpt 5.

icon = someone famous that represents something in a culture
The press wanted tales of blood-and-guts heroism from the living icons in front of them.
Chpt 16. *

icons = people widely admired and recognized as symbols
The lanyard was pulled, the protective draping swung free, and the Iwo Jima memorial statue took its place amidst the sacred icons of the nation.
Chpt 18. *

icons = sacred artworks
Until the morning she saw the flag photo, that is: She framed it and hung it as the revered third icon on the wall.†
Chpt 12. *
Now the anxious organizers at Treasury moved to secure the one element that could make The Seventh shine like no other tour ever: the presence of living figures from the beloved flagraising icon.†
Chpt 15.
In four years it had metamorphosed from an image of hope in battle, to an icon of victory in World War II, to a symbol of the pride Americans now felt as citizens of the world's new superpower.†
Chpt 18.
That day, when Mrs. Sweeney beheld The Photograph in her newspaper, she immediately took her scissors, cut the image out, tenderly framed it, and then nailed her third sacred icon on the Sweeney family's living room wall.†
Chpt Aft.

Definitions:

(1) (icon as in: computer icon)
a small image or symbol on a screen that represents a program, file, or function
(2) (icon as in: pop culture icon)
a person or thing that is widely recognized as a symbol of something — often admired
(3) (icon as in: holy icon)
a religious image or object that is respected, treated as sacred, or used in worship -- especially in Christian traditions
(4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)