Meaning

• Something serving as an expression of something else.

  "According to the Bible, the rainbow is a token of God's covenant with Noah."

• A keepsake.

  "Please accept this bustier as a token of our time together."

• A piece of stamped metal or plastic, etc., used as a substitute for money; a voucher that can be exchanged for goods or services.

  "A book token is the easiest option for a Christmas gift."

• (sometimes figurative) Evidence, proof; a confirming detail; physical trace, mark, footprint.

• Support for a belief; grounds for an opinion.

• An extraordinary event serving as evidence of supernatural power.

• An object or disclosure to attest or authenticate the bearer or an instruction.

• A seal guaranteeing the quality of an item.

• Something given or shown as a symbol or guarantee of authority or right; a sign of authenticity, of power, good faith.

• A tally.

• A particular thing to which a concept applies.

• An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.

• A conceptual object that can be possessed by a computer, process, etc. in order to regulate a turn-taking system such as a token ring network.

• A meaningless placeholder used as a substitute for sensitive data.

• (grammar) A lexeme; a basic, grammatically indivisible unit of a language such as a keyword, operator or identifier.

• (corpus linguistics) A single example of a certain word in a text or corpus.

• A characteristic sign of a disease or of a bodily disorder, a symptom; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.

• A livid spot upon the body, indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of death.

• Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.

• A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn.

• A thin bed of coal indicating the existence of a thicker seam at no great distance.

• A physical object used for exchange between drivers and signalmen on single track lines.

• In a loom, a colored signal to show the weaver which shuttle to use.

• (Church of Scotland) A piece of metal given beforehand to each person in the congregation who is permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper.

Meaning

• To betoken, indicate, portend, designate, denote

• To betroth

• To symbolize, instantiate

Meaning

• Done as an indication or a pledge; perfunctory, minimal or merely symbolic.

  "He made a token tap on the brake pedal at the stop sign."

• A minor attempt for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement

  "he was hired as the company's token black person"