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{{also|Token|tōken}}
==English==
{{wikipedia}}

===Etymology===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*deyḱ-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|token}}, {{m|enm|taken}}, from {{inh|en|ang|tācn|t=sign}}, from {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*taikn}}, from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*taikną}}, from {{der|en|ine-pro|*deyḱ-|t=to show, instruct, teach}} with Germanic *''k'' rather than *''h'' by {{w|Kluge's law}}.<ref>Kroonen, Guus (2011). [http://books.google.de/books?id=9stMq8rRnCMC ''The Proto-Germanic n-stems: a study in diachronic morphophonology''], Rodopi. {{ISBN|9042032936}}.</ref> The verb is from {{inh|en|enm|toknen}}, from {{inh|en|ang|tācnian}}. Cognate with {{cog|de|Zeichen}}, {{cog|nl|teken}} and {{cog|da|tegn}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈtəʊkən/|a=UK}}
* {{enPR|tōk′ən|a=US}} {{IPA|en|/ˈtoʊkən/}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-token.ogg|a=US}}
* {{rhymes|en|əʊkən|s=2}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# Something serving as an [[expression]] of something else.
#: {{syn|en|sign|symbol}}
#: {{ux|en|According to the Bible, the rainbow is a '''token''' of God's covenant with Noah.}}
# A [[keepsake]].
#: {{syn|en|memento|souvenir}}
#: {{ux|en|Please accept this bustier as a '''token''' of our time together.}}
# A piece of [[stamp]]ed [[metal]] or [[plastic]], etc., used as a form of currency; a [[voucher]] that can be exchanged for [[goods]] or [[service]]s.
#: {{ux|en|Subway '''tokens''' are being replaced by magnetic cards.}}
#: {{ux|en|A book '''token''' is the easiest option for a Christmas gift.}}
# A small physical object, often designed to give the appearance of a common thing, used to represent a person or character in a [[board game]] or other situation.
#: {{ux|en|Everyone pick a '''token''' (hat, wheelbarrow, thimble, etc.) and place it on the Start square.}}
# A minor attempt for [[appearance]]'s sake, or to [[minimally]] [[comply]] with a [[requirement]]; a [[formality]].
#: {{ux|en|His apology was no more than a '''token'''.}}
## A member of a group of people that is included within a larger group to comply with a legal or social requirement.
##* {{quote-journal|en|journal=Ave Maria| volume=108| page=17| year=1968| passage=New York Philharmonic has a '''token''' of one Negro. The Pittsburgh Symphony ranks high with three '''tokens'''. Cleveland has one, and other major symphony orchestras such as Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago still say, "Get back!"}}
##* {{quote-book|en|title=The Quest for Social Justice III| page=61| editor=Peter G. Watson-Boone| author=Morris Fromkin| year=2005| passage=Five women were '''tokens''' on both counts. Comparing racial '''tokens''' to nontokens, '''tokens''' reported significantly less favorable interpersonal interactions with their White male colleagues.}}
##* {{quote-book|en|title=Gang Life in Two Cities: An Insider's Journey| page=208| author=Robert J. Durán| year=2013| passage=They were '''tokens''', however: the majority of oppressed people will not experience these benefits. '''Tokens''' were used to pacify the masses and provide the mirage that racism was no longer a factor}}
##* {{quote-book|en|title=Sociology of Work: An Encyclopedia| page=485| author=Vicki Smith| year=2013| passage=Women and racial minorities (e.g., blacks, Hispanics, Asians) often are '''tokens''' in organizations or in organizational groups (e.g., departments, boards of directors, management).}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete|sometimes|figurative}} [[evidence|Evidence]], [[proof]]; a [[confirm]]ing [[detail]]; physical [[trace]], [[mark]], [[footprint]].
# Support for a [[belief]]; grounds for an [[opinion]].
#: {{syn|en|reason|reasoning}}
# An [[extraordinary]] [[event]] serving as evidence of [[supernatural]] power.
#: {{syn|en|miracle}}
# An [[object]] or [[disclosure]] to [[attest]] or [[authenticate]] the bearer or an instruction.
#: {{syn|en|password}}
# 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.
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Measure|IV|3|text=Say, by this '''token''', I desire his company.}}
#* {{RQ:KJV|Exodus|3|12|text=And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a '''token''' unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.}}
# A [[tally]].
# {{lb|en|philosophy}} A particular thing to which a [[concept]] [[apply|applies]].
# {{lb|en|computing}} An [[atomic]] piece of [[data]], such as a [[word]], for which a [[meaning]] may be [[infer]]red during [[parsing]].
#: {{syn|en|symbol}}
#: {{cot|en|placeholder}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2004|author=Randall Hyde|title=Write Great Code: Understanding the Machine|page=68
|passage=For each lexeme, the scanner creates a small data package known as a '''token''' and passes this data package on to the parser.}}
# {{lb|en|computing}} A [[conceptual]] [[object]] that can be [[possess]]ed by a [[computer]], [[process]], etc. in order to [[regulate]] a turn-taking system such as a [[token ring]] [[network]].
# {{lb|en|computing}} A meaningless [[placeholder]] used as a [[substitute]] for [[sensitive]] [[data]].
# {{lb|en|grammar}} A [[lexeme]]; a basic, grammatically [[indivisible]] [[unit]] of a [[language]] such as a [[keyword]], [[operator]] or [[identifier]].
# {{lb|en|corpus linguistics}} A single [[example]] of a certain [[word]] in a text or [[corpus]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2007|author=Khurshid Ahmad|chapter=Artificial Ontologies and Real Thoughts: Populating the Semantic Web?|editors=Roberto Basili; Maria Teresa Pazienza|title=AI*IA 2007: Artificial Intelligence and Human-Oriented Computing|publisher=Springer-Verlag|page=10
|passage=However, note the '''token''' ''ontology'', ranked the 15<sup>th</sup> most frequent '''token''' in our ontology corpus, occurs 1940 times out of 336,311 '''tokens''', but ''ontology'' only occurs 52 times in the BNC – the ratio of two relative frequencies is 10895.}}
#: {{ant|en|type}}
# {{lb|en|medical}} A characteristic sign of a [[disease]] or of a bodily [[disorder]], a [[symptom]]; a sign of a bodily condition, recovery, or health.
# {{lb|en|medical|obsolete}} A [[livid]] [[spot]] upon the [[body]], indicating, or supposed to indicate, the approach of [[death]].
#* {{RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies|Valentinian|5|4|passage=Like the fearful '''tokens''' of the plague, Are mere fore-runners of their ends.}}
# {{lb|en|printing}} Ten and a half [[quire]]s, or, commonly, 250 [[sheet]]s, 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.
# {{lb|en|mining}} A bit of [[leather]] having a peculiar [[mark]] designating a particular [[miner]]. Each [[hewer]] sent one of these with each [[corf]] or tub he had [[hew]]n.
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=August 6 1864|title=Miners and Their Grievances|journal=The Spectator|volume=37|issue=1884|page=902
|passage=But the coal-owner refuses to pay for a corf or tub simply on the ground that it contains too little weight, or that it contains “softs” instead of all “hards,”—a refusal technically known by its symbol as “hanging the motties," or by a bolder metaphor as “hanging the hutches,”—the “motties,” or '''tokens''' peculliar to the collier who sends up the corf. being hung up, if satisfactory, on the proper “motty-board peg,” if not so, on the “death-board peg;” and it is asserted that “at some collieries as many as 60 or 70 each day, worth to the collier from 6d. to 8. each, are taken from them in this manner.”}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1873|author=Richard Fynes|title=The Miners of Northumberland and Durham|page=110
|passage=But worse still was the practice of defrauding them of their earnings, for as their “'''tokens'''” were put on to the outside of the tubs it often happened that hundreds were taken off and thrown away; so that they often found, to their exceeding chagrin, when they came to bank, that after having put up with all the abuse and ill-treatment in the mine they had got little or nothing for working all day.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1877|chapter=Northern Industries|title=The Primitive Methodist Magazine|page=172
|passage=The “'''token'''” is simply a small piece of leather with a given number upon it, and as the colliers work in pairs--not at the same time, but in succession, the one man taking the “fore shift,” the other the “back shift,”—each pair has a specific number, and round the “'''token'''” cabin are ranged hooks also numbered to correspond with the '''tokens''' the colliers take down with them into the mine; every tub laden with coal that comes to bank has in it one of these “'''tokens''',” and the business of token-keeper is to secure these and lodge them upon their corresponding hooks, so that at the end of each shift, or day of labour, the colliers knows how many tubs he has sent “to bank”.}}
# {{lb|en|mining}} A thin [[bed]] of [[coal]] indicating the existence of a thicker [[seam]] at no great distance.
# {{lb|en|rail transport}} A physical object used for [[exchange]] between [[driver]]s and [[signalman|signalmen]] on single track [[line]]s.
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2020 January 2|author=Graeme Pickering|title=Fuelling the changes on Teesside rails|journal=Rail|page=61|text=Although splitting a single-line section into two might seem a simple solution, Williams adds that creating another location where drivers have to get out of the cab and walk to a cabinet to exchange '''tokens''' before a train can proceed will further slow down the service: "There must be a better option in the 21st century than putting in an additional '''token''' machine."}}
# {{lb|en|weaving}} In a [[loom]], a colored [[signal]] to show the [[weaver]] which [[shuttle]] to use.
# {{lb|en|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]].

====Derived terms====
{{col-auto|en|abbey token|hard-times token|token money|token strike
|{{l|en|access token}}
|{{l|en|book token}}
|{{l|en|bride token}}
|{{l|en|by that token}}
|{{l|en|by the same token}}
|{{l|en|CSRF token}}
|{{l|en|Conder token}}
|{{l|en|foretoken}}
|{{l|en|fungible token}}
|{{l|en|gift token}}
|{{l|en|God's token}}
|{{l|en|in token of}}
|{{l|en|love token}}
|{{l|en|more by token}}
|{{l|en|more betoken}}
|{{l|en|non-fungible token}}
|{{l|en|non-tangible token}}
|{{l|en|subtoken}}
|{{l|en|super-token}}
|[[that and a token will get you on the subway]]
|{{l|en|token bucket}}
|{{l|en|token economy}}
|{{l|en|token-pasting operator}}
|{{l|en|token ring}}
|{{l|en|tokenism}}
|{{l|en|tokenization}}
|{{l|en|tokenize}}
|{{l|en|tokenless}}
|{{l|en|tokenlike}}
|{{l|en|token ring}}
|{{l|en|type-token ratio}}
|{{l|en|USB token}}
}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|something serving as an expression of something else}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|си́мвол|m}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|tegn}}, {{t|da|mærke}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|teken|n}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|simbolo}}
* Estonian: {{t+|et|märk}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|merkki}}
* French: {{t+|fr|symbole|m}}
* Georgian: {{t+|ka|ნიშანი}}
* German: {{t+|de|Zeichen|n}}, {{t+|de|Symbol|n}}
* Gothic: {{t|got|𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍅𐍉|f}}
* Greek:
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|σημεῖον|n}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|simbolo|m}}, {{t+|it|segno|m}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|merke|n}}, {{t+|nb|symbol|n}}, {{t+|nb|nøkkel|m}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|symbol|f}}, {{t+|pl|dowód|m}}, {{t+|pl|oznaka|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|símbolo|m}}, {{t+|pt|sinal}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|simbol}}, {{t+|ro|semn}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|знак|m}}, {{t+|ru|си́мвол|m}}
* Sicilian: {{t|scn|sìmmulu|m}}, {{t+|scn|signu|m}}, {{t|scn|sinna|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|seña|m}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|tecken}}, {{t+|sv|bevis}}, {{t+|sv|kännetecken}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|keepsake or souvenir}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|сувени́р|m}}
* Danish: {{t|da|minde}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|aandenken|n}}, {{t+|nl|souvenir|n}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|mälestusese}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|muistoesine}}, {{t+|fi|muisto}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|სუვენირი}}
* German: {{t+|de|Andenken|n}}, {{t+|de|Souvenir|n}}, {{t+|de|Erinnerung|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|szuvenír}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|kōtua|tr=token of respect}}, {{t|mi|whakaturi}}
* Plautdietsch: {{t|pdt|Aunjedenkj|n}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|lembrança}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|сувени́р|m}}, {{t|ru|[[пода́рок]] на [[па́мять]]|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|recuerdo}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|minne}}, {{t|sv|minnesgåva}}
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{{trans-top|piece of stamped metal used as a currency}}
* Albanian: {{t|sq|xhiton|m}}
* Arabic: {{t+|ar|رَمْز|m}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|жэто́н|m}}, {{t|be|фі́шка|f}} {{qualifier|casino also}}, {{t|be|чып|m}} {{qualifier|casino also}}
* Bulgarian: {{t|bg|жето́н|m}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|代幣|tr=dàibì}}, {{t+|cmn|籌碼|tr=chóumǎ}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|žeton|m}}
* Danish: {{t|da|polet|c}}, {{t|da|jeton|c}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|jeton|m}}, {{t+|nl|munt|f}}, {{t+|nl|fiche|n}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|ĵetono}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|rahamärk}}, {{t|et|žetoon}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|poletti}}, {{t+|fi|rahake}}, {{t+|fi|pelimerkki}}
* French: {{t+|fr|jeton|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|Jeton|m}}, {{t+|de|Chip|m}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|μάρκα|f}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|אֲסִימוֹן|m|tr=asimón}}, {{t|he|ז׳יטון|m|tr=jitón|alt=זִ'יטוֹן}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|zseton}}, {{t+|hu|játékpénz}}, {{t+|hu|tantusz}}, {{t+|hu|telefonérme}}, {{t+|hu|biléta}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|gettone|m}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|トークン|tr=tōkun}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|жетон}}
* Korean: {{t|ko|토큰}}
* Kyrgyz: {{t|ky|жетон}}
* Latvian: {{t|lv|žetons|m}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|žetonas|m}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|жето́н|m}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nb|sjetong|m}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|ژتون|tr=žeton}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|żeton|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|ficha}}, {{t+|pt|vale|m}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|jeton|n}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|жето́н|m}}, {{t+|ru|то́кен|m}} {{qualifier|US or neologism}}, {{t+|ru|фи́шка|f}} {{qualifier|casino also}}, {{t+|ru|чип|m}} {{qualifier|casino also}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|жѐто̄н|m}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|žètōn|m}}
* Sicilian: {{t|scn|marca|f}}, {{t|scn|gittuni|m}}, {{t|scn|fisci|f}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|žetón|m}}
* Slovene: {{t|sl|žeton|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|ficha|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|pollett|c}}, {{t+|sv|jetong|c}}, {{t|sv|nödmynt|n}}
* Tajik: {{t|tg|жетон}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|jeton}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|жето́н|m}}, {{t|uk|фі́шка|f}} {{qualifier|casino also}}, {{t|uk|чіп|m}} {{qualifier|casino also}}
* Uzbek: {{t+|uz|jeton}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|something given or shown as evidence of good intentions}}
* French: {{t+|fr|gage|m}}
* Greek:
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|σύνθημα|n}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|takoha}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|prenda|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|atomic piece of data}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|token|m|n}}, {{t+|nl|symbool|n}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|simbolo}}, {{t+|eo|signo}}
* Finnish: {{t|fi|alkionimi}}, {{t+|fi|symboli}}, {{t|fi|sanake}}
* Icelandic: {{t|is|tóki|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|símbolo|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top-see|''(corpus linguistics)'' a single example of a certain word in a text or corpus|running word}}
* Hungarian: {{t|hu|szóelőfordulás}}, {{t|hu|szópéldány}}, {{t+|hu|példány}}, {{t+|hu|token}}, {{t|hu|szövegszó}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{checktrans-top}}
* Turkish: {{t+check|tr|nişan}}, {{t+check|tr|sembol}}, {{t+check|tr|jeton}}, {{t+check|tr|yadigâr}}
{{trans-bottom}}

====See also====
* {{sense|philosophy}} {{l|en|particular}}, {{l|en|universal}}, {{l|en|type}}

====References====
<references/>

===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}

# Done as an [[indication]] or a [[pledge]].
# [[perfunctory|Perfunctory]] or [[merely]] [[symbolic]]; done or existing for appearance's sake, or to minimally comply with a requirement.
#: {{coi|en|a '''token''' gesture}}
#: {{ux|en|He made a '''token''' tap on the brake pedal at the stop sign.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1927|author=Arthur Robert Burns|title=Money and Monetary Policy in Early Times|page=393
|passage=If the as had been reduced to a token in 240 BC, it was now a little more '''token''' than before.}}
#* {{quote-web|en|url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/jul/01/fiachragibbons|title=Arts and science ‘damp squib’|date=1999-06-30|author=Fiachra Gibbons|quotee=John Calder|work=The Guardian|passage=It sounds very '''token''', another damp squib which will probably end up benefiting more bureaucrats than artists or scientists.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2000|author=Cheris Kramarae; Dale Spender|title=Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women|page=176
|passage=There are still many churches where the participation of women is '''token'''.}}
# {{lb|en|of people}} Included in minimal numbers in order to create an impression or [[illusion]] of [[diversity]], especially ethnic or gender diversity.
#: {{ux|en|He was hired as the company's '''token''' black person.}}
#: {{ux|en|The television show was primarily directed toward a black audience, but it did have a few '''token''' white people as performers.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1958| title=Social Problems - Volume 6 |author=| page=158| passage=However, it should be noted that wherever ministers are opposed to mixed churches, the racial admixture is '''token'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1993| title=FCC Record|author=United States. Federal Communications Commission | page=7560| passage=It disputed the NAACP's argument that its minority employment was '''token''', noting that it employed minorities in six years of its seven-year term and hired Blacks as station manager and news director among its five minority hires for full-time positions. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1995| title=Who's Afraid of Affirmative Action|author=Christine N. Qunta | page=54| passage=Even appointees who knew their positions were '''token''' would coolly take from the situation whatever benefits they could get. }}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1996|title=Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academe|
author=William G. Tierney; Estela Mara Bensimon| page=96| passage=Having been in a university environment that was incredibly hostile to women, coming here seems like heaven. There are a lot of women senior faculty. In the university, there was only one in the department, and she was very '''token'''.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2000| title=Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling - Volume 31 |author=| page=51| passage=In the rehabilitation (or any other) work-settings, minority counselors in double '''token''' status (e.g., female, black ) or triple '''token''' status ( female, black, with a disability) may experience more intense '''token''' effects of have mixed outcomes.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2014| title=The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions |author=Christopher F. Karpowitz; Tali Mendelberg | page=117| passage=This perspective thus implies a corollary that addresses the most highly imbalanced gender compositions and that we label as '''''token'''''. {{...}} Therefore, "'''token'''" women's participation and authority will be lower than "'''token'''" men's.}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|merely symbolic, for appearance's sake}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|символи́чен}}, {{t+|bg|привиден}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|symbolisch}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|nimellinen}}, {{t+|fi|symbolinen}}
* French: {{t+|fr|symbolique}}, {{t+|fr|de service}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|symboliczny|m}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|simbólico}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|символи́ческий}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|simbólico}}, {{t+|es|cosmético}}
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===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# To [[betoken]], [[indicate]], [[portend]], [[designate]], [[denote]]
#* '''1398''', in {{w|Hans Kurath}} & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''{{w|Middle English Dictionary}}'', Ann Arbor, Mich.: {{w|University of Michigan Press}} 1962, [[Special:BookSources/978-0-472-01044-8|{{ISBN|978-0-472-01044-8}}]], page 1242:
#*: '''dorrẹ&#773;''', '''dōrī''' adj. & n. {{...}} Golden or reddish-yellow {{...}} (a. 1398) *Trev. <u>Barth.</u> 59b/a: ʒelouʒ colour [of urine] {{...}} '''tokeneþ''' febleness of hete {{...}} dorrey & citrine & liʒt red '''tokeneþ''' mene.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1928|author=w:Edmund Blunden|title=Undertones of War|page=149|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2010
|passage=The instinct revolted against the inevitable punishment to come, already '''tokened''' by those big holes now met in walls and crossings.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=2018|author=Fred Rush|title=Wittgenstein and the Craft of Reading:  On ''Reckoning with the Imagination:  Wittgenstein and the Aesthetics of Reading'' by Charles Altieri|work=Philosophy and Literature|volume=42|issue=1|pages=236–37|passage=Kant's theory of productive imagination, Schiller's aesthetics of ''Schein'', and Hegel's loosening of the determinacy of concepts by means of the process-oriented dialectical model of rationality '''token''' a domain of experience in which single objects have significance that is at the same time superabundant and noncategorical.}}
# To [[betroth]]
# {{lb|en|philosophy}} To [[symbolize]], [[instantiate]]
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=August 27, 2008|author=Mikkel Gerken|title=Is There a Simple Argument for Higher-Order Representation Theories of Awareness Consciousness?|work=Erkenntnis|url=|doi=10.1007/s10670-008-9116-z|volume=69|issue=2|pages=
|passage=In which sense does ‘∀p ~(p & ~p)’ cause the '''tokening''' of the belief in the subject?}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|en|betoken}}
* {{l|en|foretoken}}

====References====
* {{R:Webster 1913}}
* Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

==Dutch==

===Etymology===
{{root|nl|ine-pro|*deyḱ-}}
From {{der|nl|en|token}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|nl|/ˈtoːkə(n)/}}
* {{audio|nl|Nl-token.ogg}}

===Noun===
{{nl-noun|m|g2=n|-s|+}}

# {{lb|nl|computing}} {{l|en|token}}, an atomic piece of data

====Usage notes====
There is no general agreement about the gender. In the south, people tend to use neuter, whereas in the north, masculine is preferred.

===Anagrams===
* {{l|nl|knoet}}

==Middle English==

===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|enm|ang|tācn}}, from {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*taikną||sign, token, symbol}}.

====Noun====
{{enm-noun|tokenes}}

# [[#English|token]] {{gl|a physical object representing an action, concept, etc.}}
# [[omen]], [[portent]]
# [[#English|token]] {{gl|support for a belief}}
# [[prearranged]] [[signal]]
# [[#English|token]] {{gl|momento, keepsake}}
# A [[flag]], [[banner]], [[standard]] associated with a person or event.
# [[model]], [[example]]
# [[guarantee]]
# {{lb|enm|astronomy}} [[celestial body]]
# {{lb|enm|astrology}} [[astrological sign]]

=====Alternative forms=====
* {{alter|enm|tokene|tokin|tokine|tokon|tokne|tocne|toquen}}
* {{alter|enm|taken|takein|takin|takine||Northern}}
* {{alter|enm|taken|takein|takin|takine|tacn|tacne|tacnæ|tockne||early}}

=====Descendants=====
* {{desc|en|token}}
* {{desc|sco|taiken}}

====References====
* {{R:MED Online|tōken|n|MED46216}}

===Etymology 2===

====Noun====
{{enm-noun|-}}

# {{lb|enm|before ''g-''}} {{alt form|enm|tukinge}}

===Etymology 3===

====Verb====
{{head|enm|verb form}}

# {{infl of|enm|taken||simple|past|pl}}

=====Alternative forms=====
* {{alter|enm|toke|tok|tokon|teken|takede}}
* {{alter|enm|tocken||early southwest Midlands}}
* {{alter|enm|tocan||early}}

====Verb====
{{head|enm|verb form}}

# {{alt form|enm|taken}}: {{infl of|enm|taken||past|part}}

==Polish==
{{wp|lang=pl|Token (generator kodów)|token}}

===Etymology===
{{dercat|pl|enm|ang|gmw-pro|gem-pro|ine-pro}}
{{bor+|pl|en|token}}. {{dbt|pl|cecha|cych}}.

===Pronunciation===
{{pl-pr|a=Pl-token.ogg}}

===Noun===
{{pl-noun|m-in}}

# {{lb|pl|computing}} {{l|en|token|security token}} {{gl|peripheral device used to gain access to an electronically restricted resource}}
#: {{hyper|pl|urządzenie}}

====Declension====
{{pl-decl-noun-m-in|||a}}

===Further reading===
* {{R:pl:WSJP}}
* {{R:pl:PWN}}

{{C|pl|Tools}}

==Spanish==

===Noun===
{{es-noun|m}}

# {{l|en|token}}

==Swedish==

===Noun===
{{head|sv|noun form}}

# {{noun form of|sv|tok||def|s}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|sv|a=eknot|keton}}