REPRESENTATIONS Synonyms: 30 Similar Words

representations

noun

plural of representation

as in pictures

a visual design intended to look like someone or something The cave was painted with representations of horses and bison.

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Recent Examples of representations Her massive concrete site-work, which takes up the entirety of the Geffen Galleries plaza, is peppered with fragmentary representations of the Mesoamerican deity Quetzalcoatl and the simulated footprints of Californian fauna. — George Baker, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026 She is driven by a commitment to creating hopeful, transformative representations of Native life, especially for youth, offering characters and stories that reflect strength, possibility and self-recognition. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2026 Still other explanations presume that the gods’ artistic representations in ritual settings are the basis of the meaning of their multiform appearances. — Charles Preston, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026 This involves high-resolution 3D virtual representations of the fabric itself (capturing weight, drape, weave structure and mechanical stretch). — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2026 That’s because Avery understood that a deep canyon separates things in the world from their representations in art. — Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 27 Aug. 2026 Growing up, pop culture’s representations of girlhood included a blonde Wakefield twin from Sweet Valley High, a post-makeover Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club, and a big-breasted bombshell manufactured by some dorks with a Commodore 64. — Lisa Whittington-Hill, Longreads, 27 Aug. 2026 Through the arts, both Jews and non-Jews encounter Jewish history, Jewish religious practices and representations of Jewish communities. — Laura Yares, The Conversation, 24 Aug. 2026 Freedom 250 controversies Freedom 250 itself has been at the center of criticism over funding transparency and religious representations. — Melina Khan, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Starting in the 1930s, as talking pictures and then radio and TV supplanted theater as the prime form of mass entertainment, some were converted to cinemas.

— Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 3 Sep. 2026
And, apparently, the eerie pictures are turning people's stomachs.

— Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of pictures

Noun

But unlike the Peter Farrelly film, By Any Means — which was directed by Elegance Bratton and written by Sascha Penn — isn’t interested in cloying depictions of interracial high jinks and bonding.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
The Museum of Modern Art rejected her films because of their depictions of lesbian lovemaking, Hammer claimed in an archival recording included by O’Connor.

— Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of depictions

Noun

In portraits in homes and classrooms, in daily photographs on the front page of the country’s main party newspaper, on the lapel badges that citizens had pinned over their hearts, Kim’s image was the very iconography of the state.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2026
After two decades in commercial property and about two years of drawing bad dog portraits, Heckels quit his job and started drawing portraits nearly every day instead.

— Maddie Rhodes, USA Today, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of portraits

Noun

Wednesday and Tuesdays major money lottery drawings dropped jackpot winnings all over Miami-Dade, including two hits in one place.

— David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026
Rather than presenting Zumthor’s work through drawings or conventional architectural documentation, Wenders trains his camera on the people who encounter, inhabit and build these spaces, letting the buildings unfold from the inside.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of drawings

Noun

The trove of women’s bloomers, drawers, knickers, brassieres, corsets, and girdles is just a small part of the school’s historic clothing collection, with images shared by the University of Wyoming Libraries via JSTOR.

— April White, JSTOR Daily, 2 Sep. 2026
Her paintings, like her images, feel like moving through a fog made of glass and wood, chaos and restraint, Lilith in a Victorian steel mill.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of images

Noun

But now, the walkway beyond it guides visitors past rows of photographs.

— Amir Vahdat, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
The tiny farming settlement of Poilley, in Brittany, would become her home for the next eight years, and the subject of more than 50,000 intimate, often unsettling photographs.

— Felix Bazalgette, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026