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Meaning of image in English

Table of contents
  1. Pronunciation
  2. Verb
    1. Definitions
  3. Noun
    1. Etymology
    2. Definitions
  1. Pronunciation

    /ˈɪmɪdʒ/

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  1. Verb

    image

    Definitions

    1. imagine

    Examples

    • « conceive of »
    • « see in one's mind »
    • « I can't see him on horseback! »
    • « I can see what will happen »
    • « I can see a risk in this strategy »

    Derived terms

    • effigy
    • envisioning
    • fancy
    • fantasy
    • figuration
    • icon
    • ikon
    • illusion
    • illusionist
    • imagery
    • imagination
    • imaging
    • impression
    • mental image
    • mental imagery
    • mental picture
    • phantasy
    • picture
    • picturing
    • seer
    • simulacrum
    • visionary
    • visualisation
    • visualiser
    • visualization
    • visualizer
    • visual image
  2. Noun

    image

    Etymology

    Middle English: from Old French, from Latin imago; related to imitate

    Definitions

    1. an iconic mental representation

    Examples

    • « her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate »

    Derived terms

    • envision
    • fancy
    • figure
    • picture
    • project
    • see
    • visualise
    • visualize
  3. 2. a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

    Examples

    • « they showed us the pictures of their wedding »
    • « a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them »

    Derived terms

    • depict
    • envision
    • fancy
    • figure
    • picture
    • project
    • render
    • see
    • show
    • visualise
    • visualize
  4. 3. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world

    Examples

    • « a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty »

    Derived terms

    • be
    • embody
    • personify
  5. 4. a standard or typical example

    Examples

    • « he is the prototype of good breeding »
    • « he provided America with an image of the good father »

    Derived terms

    • epitomise
    • epitomize
    • typify
  6. 5. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
  7. 6. someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)

    Examples

    • « he could be Gingrich's double »
    • « she's the very image of her mother »
  8. 7. a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)

    Examples

    • « the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln »
    • « the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone »

    Derived terms

    • envision
    • fancy
    • figure
    • picture
    • project
    • see
    • visualise
    • visualize

Famous quotes

  • « Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. »
    E. B. White
  • « Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God. »
    Jonathan Sacks
  • « I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York Times,' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image. »
    Barbara Corcoran
  • « Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head. »
    Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • « Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people? »
    Desmond Tutu

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