Entry Word: picture

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a two-dimensional design intended to look like a person or thing <she produced a beautiful picture of her mother using watercolors>

Synonyms illustration, image, likeness

Related Words delineation, depiction, representation; portrait; drawing, finger painting; etching, silhouette, sketch, watercolor; caricature, cartoon, doodle; collage, montage, photograph; hieroglyphic, ideogram; pictograph

2 a story told by means of a series of continuously projected pictures and a sound track <the actorʼs latest picture is another thriller> — see movie 1
3 a vivid representation in words of someone or something <the newspaper report gives a detailed picture of the current situation in that troubled country> — see description 1
4 position with regard to conditions and circumstances <when personal opinion becomes part of the picture, the journalist isnʼt just reporting the news> — see situation 1
5 something or someone that strongly resembles another <the young teen is the very picture of her mother> — see image 1
6 something imagined or pictured in the mind <I think I get the picture: you want me to leave> — see idea
7 pictures pluralthe art or business of making a movie <hoping for a career in pictures> — see movie 2