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Token

noun

An individual instance of a type of symbol. Synonym: item.

Something serving as a sign of something else.

A metal or plastic disk that can be redeemed or used in designated slot machines.

Something of sentimental value. Synonyms: keepsake, relic, souvenir.

adjective

Insignificantly small; a matter of form only ('tokenish' is informal). Synonyms: nominal, tokenish. "A token gesture of resistance" , "A toknenish gesture"

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... effected a change in the position of affairs on the ocean, Congress devoted a good deal of attention to naval matters; several new vessels were built and others were purchased, and the present year (1778) gave token of the spirit and ability of some of our earlier naval officers in contending with a navy usually held to be invincible. Early in the year Captain Biddle, in the Randolph, a frigate of thirty-six guns, engaged his majesty's ship the Yarmouth, a sixty-four, ...

— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing

... interruption. They assembled in the streets, traversed them at their will and pleasure, and publicly concerted their plans. Business was quite suspended; the greater part of the shops were closed; most of the houses displayed a blue flag in token of their adherence to the popular side; and even the Jews in Houndsditch, Whitechapel, and those quarters, wrote upon their doors or window-shutters, 'This House is a True Protestant.' The crowd was the law, and never was the law held in greater ...

— Barnaby Rudge • Charles Dickens

... into the first entrance. Again and again she was sent forth to bow her acknowledgments—to bow again and again until she was forced to throw up her hands in token of the fact that she had exhausted ...

— Dorothy's Triumph • Evelyn Raymond

... bearing a large piece of tent-cloth swept along the crest of Bolivar Heights. The doubtful color of the flag displayed prevented an immediate cessation of the Confederate fire. It proved to be in token of surrender, but after its appearance I saw a shot from our second piece strike so near a horseman riding at speed along the heights as to envelop horse and rider in its ...

— The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson • Edward A. Moore

... servants departed this life in his faith and fear, and to pray that God may give us grace to follow their good examples; and especially to thank him for the founders of this ancient Trinity House, which stands here as a token to all generations of Britons, that science and religion are not contrary to each other, but twin sisters, meant to aid each other and mankind in the battle with the brute forces ...

— Discipline and Other Sermons • Charles Kingsley

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