Synonyms of representation

representation

noun

as in depiction

a visual design intended to look like someone or something

The cave was painted with representations of horses and bison.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• depiction
• image
• portrait
• drawing
• picture
• illustration
• photograph
• view
• resemblance
• delineation
• likeness
• sketch
• silhouette
• etching
• icon
• ikon
• watercolor
• caricature
• cartoon
• finger painting
• collage
• montage
• diagram
• daub
• doodle
• ideograph
• ideogram
• hieroglyph
• hieroglyphic
• pictograph

Examples of representation in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Founder Ezra Myles created an emphasis on the celebration and representation of Caribbean culture in the Bay Area community, and also aimed to empower and inspire individuals who don’t have formal dance training to find joy and passion in their movement. —Jane Tyska, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2024

Her focus is not on the representation of meaning but rather on the medial and material conditions of representation. —Moritz Scheper, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024

In announcing the indictments and arrests, law enforcement said Chavez also made false representations to a wholesale ketamine distributor and used a phony prescription for ketamine lozenges using the name of a former patient. —Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Aug. 2024

Her activism led her to scrutinize the onscreen representation of women and to try to reform it. —Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2024