symbolically

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 2.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adverb In a symbolic manner.
2. adverb By means of symbols or a symbol.
3. adverb As symbols or a symbol.

Similar words

metaphorically figuratively allegorically emblematically representatively representationally iconically typologically allusively suggestively

Often followed by

and in as the to represented by important expressed

Word family

symbol symbolic symbolise symbolised symbolises symbolising symbolism symbolize symbolized symbolizes