exemplar vs symbol

exemplar

noun
  • Something fit to be imitated; an ideal, a model. 

  • A handwritten manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original copy of what gets multiply reproduced in a copy machine. 

  • A role model. 

  • A well known usage of a scientific theory. 

  • A pattern after which others should be made; an archetype. 

  • A copy of a book or piece of writing. 

  • Something typical or representative of a class; an example that typifies. 

symbol

noun
  • A thing considered the embodiment of a concept or object. 

  • A type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index. 

  • A signalling event on a communications channel; a signal that cannot be further divided into meaningful information. 

  • An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code. 

  • A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object. 

  • A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith. 

  • The numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes. 

verb
  • To symbolize. 

How often have the words exemplar and symbol occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )