Anthropologist Clifford Geertz Defined Culture as Ideas Based on Cultural

Anthropologist Clifford Geertz defined culture as ideas based on cultural learning and symbols. What is a symbol?

A) something verbal or nonverbal within a particular language or culture that comes to stand for something else, with no necessary or natural connection to the thing for which it stands
B) something verbal or nonverbal with a nonarbitrary association with what it symbolizes
C) a linguistic sign within a particular language that comes to stand for something else in another language
D) a distinctive or unique cultural trait, pattern, or integration that can be translated into other cultures
E) any element within a culture that distinguishes it from other cultures, precisely because it is difficult to translate