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• UK: /ˈtəʊkən/
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• US: tōk′ən
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• US: /ˈtoʊkən/
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• rhymes with -əʊkən
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• CMU ARPABET: T OW1 K AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English token, taken, from Old English tācn (“sign, symbol”), from Proto-West Germanic *taikn, from Proto-Germanic *taikną (“indicator, symbol, sign”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to show, instruct, teach”) with Germanic *k rather than *h by Kluge's law. Cognate with Scots takin, taiken (“token, sign”), Saterland Frisian Teken (“sign, symbol”), West Frisian teken (“sign, mark, symbol”), Dutch teken (“sign, indication, symbol”), German Low German Teken (“sign, symbol”), German Zeichen (“sign, token”), Danish tegn (“sign, token, character”), Swedish tecken (“sign, indication”), Faroese tekn, tekin (“mark, sign, signal”), Icelandic teikn (“sign, omen”), Icelandic tákn (“symbol”). The verb is from Middle English toknen, from Old English tācnian.

164 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: символи́чен (simvolíčen) — merely symbolic, for appearance's sake
• Bulgarian: привиден (prividen) — merely symbolic, for appearance's sake
• Dutch: symbolisch — merely symbolic, for appearance's sake
• Finnish: nimellinen — merely symbolic, for appearance's sake
• Finnish: symbolinen — merely symbolic, for appearance's sake
• French: symbolique — merely symbolic, for appearance's sake
• French: de service — merely symbolic, for appearance's sake
• Polish: symboliczny — merely symbolic, for appearance's sake
• Portuguese: simbólico — merely symbolic, for appearance's sake
• Russian: символи́ческий (simvolíčeskij) — merely symbolic, for appearance's sake
• Spanish: simbólico — merely symbolic, for appearance's sake
• Spanish: cosmético — merely symbolic, for appearance's sake
• Bulgarian: си́мвол (símvol) — something serving as an expression of something else
• Danish: tegn — something serving as an expression of something else
• Danish: mærke — something serving as an expression of something else
• Dutch: teken — something serving as an expression of something else
• Esperanto: simbolo — something serving as an expression of something else
• Estonian: märk — something serving as an expression of something else
• Finnish: merkki — something serving as an expression of something else
• French: symbole — something serving as an expression of something else
• Georgian: ნიშანი (nišani) — something serving as an expression of something else
• German: Zeichen — something serving as an expression of something else
• German: Symbol — something serving as an expression of something else
• Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐍉 (bandwō) — something serving as an expression of something else
• Ancient Greek: σημεῖον (sēmeîon) — something serving as an expression of something else
• Hungarian: jel — something serving as an expression of something else
• Hungarian: jelkép — something serving as an expression of something else
• Hungarian: szimbólum — something serving as an expression of something else
• Italian: simbolo — something serving as an expression of something else
• Italian: segno — something serving as an expression of something else
• Norwegian Bokmål: merke — something serving as an expression of something else
• Norwegian Bokmål: symbol — something serving as an expression of something else
• Norwegian Bokmål: nøkkel — something serving as an expression of something else
• Polish: symbol — something serving as an expression of something else
• Polish: dowód — something serving as an expression of something else
• Polish: oznaka — something serving as an expression of something else
• Portuguese: símbolo — something serving as an expression of something else
• Portuguese: sinal — something serving as an expression of something else
• Romanian: simbol — something serving as an expression of something else
• Romanian: semn — something serving as an expression of something else
• Russian: знак (znak) — something serving as an expression of something else
• Russian: си́мвол (símvol) — something serving as an expression of something else
• Serbo-Croatian: znak — something serving as an expression of something else
• Serbo-Croatian: simbol — something serving as an expression of something else
• Sicilian: sìmmulu — something serving as an expression of something else
• Sicilian: signu — something serving as an expression of something else
• Sicilian: sinna — something serving as an expression of something else
• Southern Altai: билди (bildi) — something serving as an expression of something else
• Southern Altai: белги (belgi) — something serving as an expression of something else
• Spanish: seña — something serving as an expression of something else
• Swedish: tecken — something serving as an expression of something else
• Swedish: bevis — something serving as an expression of something else
• Swedish: kännetecken — something serving as an expression of something else
• Bulgarian: сувени́р (suvenír) — keepsake or souvenir
• Danish: minde — keepsake or souvenir
• Dutch: aandenken — keepsake or souvenir
• Dutch: souvenir — keepsake or souvenir
• Estonian: mälestusese — keepsake or souvenir
• Finnish: muistoesine — keepsake or souvenir
• Finnish: muisto — keepsake or souvenir
• Georgian: სუვენირი (suveniri) — keepsake or souvenir
• German: Andenken — keepsake or souvenir
• German: Souvenir — keepsake or souvenir
• German: Erinnerung — keepsake or souvenir
• Hungarian: szuvenír — keepsake or souvenir
• Māori: kōtua — keepsake or souvenir
• Māori: whakaturi — keepsake or souvenir
• Plautdietsch: Aunjedenkj — keepsake or souvenir
• Portuguese: lembrança — keepsake or souvenir
• Russian: сувени́р (suvenír) — keepsake or souvenir
• Russian: пода́рок на па́мять (podárok na pámjatʹ) — keepsake or souvenir
• Spanish: recuerdo — keepsake or souvenir
• Swedish: minne — keepsake or souvenir
• Swedish: minnesgåva — keepsake or souvenir
• Albanian: xhiton — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Arabic: رَمْز (ramz) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Belarusian: жэто́н (žetón) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Belarusian: фі́шка (fíška) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Belarusian: чып (čyp) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Bulgarian: жето́н (žetón) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Chinese Mandarin: 代幣 /代币 (dàibì) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Chinese Mandarin: 籌碼 /筹码 (chóumǎ) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Czech: žeton — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Danish: polet — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Danish: jeton — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Dutch: jeton — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Dutch: munt — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Dutch: fiche — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Esperanto: ĵetono — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Estonian: rahamärk — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Estonian: žetoon — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Finnish: poletti — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Finnish: rahake — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Finnish: pelimerkki — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• French: jeton — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• German: Jeton — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• German: Chip — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Greek: μάρκα (márka) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Hebrew: אֲסִימוֹן (asimón) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Hebrew: זִ׳יטוֹן (jitón) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Hungarian: zseton — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Hungarian: játékpénz — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Hungarian: tantusz — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Hungarian: telefonérme — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Hungarian: biléta — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Italian: gettone — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Japanese: トークン (tōkun) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Kazakh: жетон (jeton) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Korean: 토큰 (tokeun) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Kyrgyz: жетон (jeton) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Latvian: žetons — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Lithuanian: žetonas — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Macedonian: жето́н (žetón) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Norwegian Bokmål: sjetong — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Persian: ژتون (žeton) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Polish: żeton — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Portuguese: ficha — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Portuguese: vale — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Romanian: jeton — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Russian: жето́н (žetón) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Russian: то́кен (tóken) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Russian: фи́шка (fíška) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Russian: чип (čip) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Serbo-Croatian: жѐто̄н — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Serbo-Croatian: žètōn — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Sicilian: marca — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Sicilian: gittuni — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Sicilian: fisci — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Slovak: žetón — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Slovene: žeton — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Spanish: ficha — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Swedish: pollett — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Swedish: jetong — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Swedish: nödmynt — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Tajik: жетон (žeton) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Turkish: jeton — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Ukrainian: жето́н (žetón) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Ukrainian: фі́шка (fíška) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Ukrainian: чіп (čip) — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• Uzbek: jeton — piece of stamped metal used as a currency
• French: gage — something given or shown as evidence of good intentions
• Ancient Greek: σύνθημα (súnthēma) — something given or shown as evidence of good intentions
• Māori: takoha — something given or shown as evidence of good intentions
• Spanish: prenda — something given or shown as evidence of good intentions
• Spanish: muestra — something given or shown as evidence of good intentions
• Spanish: señal — something given or shown as evidence of good intentions
• Spanish: favor — something given or shown as evidence of good intentions
• Chinese Mandarin: 詞元 /词元 — atomic piece of data
• Dutch: token — atomic piece of data
• Dutch: symbool — atomic piece of data
• Esperanto: simbolo — atomic piece of data
• Esperanto: signo — atomic piece of data
• Finnish: alkionimi — atomic piece of data
• Finnish: symboli — atomic piece of data
• Finnish: sanake — atomic piece of data
• Icelandic: tóki — atomic piece of data
• Spanish: símbolo — atomic piece of data
• Chinese Mandarin: 詞例 /词例 — ''(corpus linguistics)'' a single example of a certain word in a text or corpus
• Finnish: sane — ''(corpus linguistics)'' a single example of a certain word in a text or corpus
• Hungarian: szóelőfordulás — ''(corpus linguistics)'' a single example of a certain word in a text or corpus
• Hungarian: szópéldány — ''(corpus linguistics)'' a single example of a certain word in a text or corpus
• Hungarian: példány — ''(corpus linguistics)'' a single example of a certain word in a text or corpus
• Hungarian: token — ''(corpus linguistics)'' a single example of a certain word in a text or corpus
• Hungarian: szövegszó — ''(corpus linguistics)'' a single example of a certain word in a text or corpus