What Is A Symbol

Photo of Photoshop symbols of the major world religions is courtesy of Siuloir-Domhanda who published it on Flickr. It includes from top-clockwise:
Neopagan spirituality, judaism, christianity, sikh faith, hinduism, taoists, Islam Buddhism.
The Star of David is a Symbol – but what is a Symbol?
I entered the keywords DEFINE: Symbol into Goggle’s search-window and got many interesting answers. You may do the same...