Token

1. something serving to represent or indicate some fact, event, feeling, etc.; sign: Black is a token of mourning. 2. a characteristic indication or mark of something; evidence or proof: Malnutrition is a token of poverty. 3. a memento; souvenir; keepsake: The seashell was a token of their trip. 4. something used to indicate authenticity, authority, etc.; emblem; badge: Judicial robes are a token of office. 5. Also called token coin. 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. 6. anything of only nominal value similarly used, as paper currency. 7. an item, idea, person, etc., representing a group; a part as representing the whole; sample; indication. 8. Logic, Linguistics. a particular instance of a word, symbol, expression, sentence, or the like: A printed page might have twenty tokens of the single type-word “and.”. Compare type (def 8).