<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>something serving to represent or indicate some fact, event, feeling, etc.; sign: Black is a token of mourning.</li><li>a characteristic indication or mark of something; evidence or proof: Malnutrition is a token of poverty.</li><li>a memento; souvenir; keepsake: The seashell was a token of their trip.</li><li>something used to indicate authenticity, authority, etc.; emblem; badge: Judicial robes are a token of office.</li><li>Also called token coin.</li><li>a stamped piece of metal, issued as a limited medium of exchange, as for bus fares, at a nominal value much greater than its commodity value.</li><li>anything of only nominal value used in exchange for goods or services, as paper currency.</li><li>virtual token.</li><li>an item, idea, etc., representing a group; a part as representing the whole; sample; indication: The religious movement was an exhibition of latent energy, and a token of what may take place at some future day.</li><li>a person, especially a member of a minority group, who has been hired, admitted, enrolled, etc., to forestall charges of prejudice or discrimination.</li><li>an object, as a disk or figure, used in various board games for marking a player's position or for keeping score.</li><li>Logic, Linguistics: a particular instance of a word, symbol, expression, sentence, or the like: Compare type (def 8). A printed page might have twenty tokens of the single type-word “and.”</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to be a token of; signify; symbolize.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>serving as a token: At the end of the field trip each child received a token gift to take home as a memento.</li><li>The HR complaint was filed by a man who felt his hiring had been meant to add a token male to an all-female staff.</li></ul>