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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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"Token" Quotes from Famous Books

... at school until I left, and the last time I saw her there she was wearing the red coral set which had estranged her from her grandfather as a token of reconciliation; and she told me that the old man's hands trembled in giving them to her, even more than hers did in giving them up, as he said to her with tears in his eyes ...

— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various

... HENRIETTA, - Certainly; who else would they be? More by token, on that particular occasion, you were sailing under the title of Princess Royal; I, after a furious contest, under that of Prince Alfred; and Willie, still a little sulky, as the Prince of Wales. We were all in a buck basket about half-way between the swing and the gate; and I can still see the ...

— The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 1 • Robert Louis Stevenson

... where the post-office authorities evinced symptoms of rising excitement—though not the type of excitement at which the Art Expert was aiming—when the series took a turn for the milder, and more purely athletic, and, by the same token, less appetizing; and presently faded away in a burst of semi-editorial self-laudation over The Patriot's altruistic endeavors to improve the physical status of the "future mothers ...

— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... 'myself in a ferment ; and Susan, too, looked foolish, and knew.not what to answer. As I sat on the same sofa with him, I gave him a gentle shove, as a token, which he could not but understand, that he had said something wrong—though I believe he could not imagine what. Indeed, how ...

— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 1 • Madame D'Arblay

... he brought and been allowed to wear the token, it would not have made any impression whatever on the mind of a British charger—but ...

— In Brief Authority • F. Anstey

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