Usually means: Expressing ideas through representative forms.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word symbolically:

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  1. symbolically: Merriam-Webster
  2. symbolically: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. symbolically: Collins English Dictionary
  4. symbolically: Vocabulary.com
  5. Symbolically, symbolically: Wordnik
  6. symbolically: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. symbolically: Wiktionary
  8. symbolically: Dictionary.com
  9. symbolically: Rhymezone
  10. symbolically: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. symbolically: FreeDictionary.org
  12. symbolically: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. symbolically: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. symbolically: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. symbolically: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (symbolically)

▸ adverb:  In a symbolic manner.
▸ adverb:  By means of symbols or a symbol.
▸ adverb:  As symbols or a symbol.

Similar:
symbolistically, symbolicly, emblematically, unsymbolically, allegorically, signifyingly, figuratively, sematically, representationally, semiotically, more...

Opposite:
literally, concretely, realistically

Types:
metaphorically, allegorically, figuratively, hyperbolically, more...

Phrases:
symbolically significant, more...

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Similar:
symbolistically, symbolicly, emblematically, unsymbolically, allegorically, signifyingly, figuratively, sematically, representationally, semiotically, more...

Opposite:
literally, concretely, realistically

Types:
metaphorically, allegorically, figuratively, hyperbolically, more...

Phrases:
symbolically significant, more...

Colors:
    red,     blue,     green,     yellow,     black, more...



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