icon vs painting

painting vs icon

icon and painting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
icon	Yes	No	No	No
painting	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, painting is a hypernym of icon; that is, painting is a word with a broader meaning than icon:

icon: a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church
painting: graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface

Other hypernyms of icon include picture.

icon (noun)	painting (noun)
a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface	creating a picture with paints
a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church	the occupation of a house painter
(computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface	the act of applying paint to a surface
	graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface

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