There are not so many meanings of this word, in many areas it is used in similar meanings.

We would
like to introduce you to several definitions of the word Icon in different sphere.

2ckfql) The word “icon” has religious roots. It originally referred to a picture of a sacred person,
such as images of Christ in the Eastern Orthodox tradition.(ИКОНА (Religion) but now it
has more meanings

3 ckfql)ПОЛИТИКА

Икона — the pattern, the highest ultimate goal of aspirations, activities.

4ck)ФИЛОСОФИЯ

Икона- the great/important image or figurative sign. In this sense, the word "icon" is close in meaning to
the word "symbol", but contains a more expressed element of imagery. The symbol often acts as a sign
of an abstract idea; an icon - of objects or personalities

5слайд)ЛИТЕРАТУРА

Icon- a description of a person or thing, usually using a figure of

speech. To semioticians, icons are signs, verbal or otherwise, with
extra-systemic resemblances to the persons or things they
denote. 

6сл)ЛИНГВИСТИКА
An icon(иконический знак)-semiotic concept, a kind of sign denotes its object by virtue of a quality which
is shared by them but which the icon has irrespectively of the object. The term (icon) was first proposed
and developed by the American philosopher and logician Pierce. The icon has a certain character or
aspect, one which the object also has and which lets the icon be interpreted as a sign even if the object
does not exist.

7сл)МАРКЕТИНГ

Icon(associative image)is used to characterize the behavior of members of the upperclass

society who not engaged in production activities

So as we see from this definitions, this term has some different meanings but I'm some spheres
we can see similar moments and we can say that nowadays all of us think of an icon as pictures
in church, or as a person, place, literature, films.