English Explanatory Dictionary

picture

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
  2. An image; a representation as in the imagination.
  3. A painting.
  4. A photograph.
  5. A motion picture.
  6. ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
  7. A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
  8. An attractive sight.
  9. The art of painting; representation by painting.
  10. A figure; a model.
  11. Situation.
  12. A sample of an illegal drug.
verb
  1. To represent in or with a picture.
  2. To imagine or envision.
  3. To depict or describe vividly.

Pronunciation

/ˈpɪk.t͡ʃəː/ [ˈpʰɪk.t͡ʃəː] /ˈpɘk.t͡ʃɘː/ [ˈpʰɘk.t͡ʃɘː] /ˈpɪk.t͡ʃɚ/ [ˈpʰɪk.t͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈpʰɪk.t͡ʃɹ̩] En-us-picture.ogg /ˈpɪ.t͡ʃɚ/ [ˈpʰɪ.t͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈpʰɪ.t͡ʃɹ̩]

Word forms

picture pictures picturing pictured

Etymology

From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“to paint”). Doublet of pictura.

Synonyms

picture image

Related words

frame canvas postcard poster tapestry gallery depict depiction pictorial Wiktionary:Picture dictionary

Derived words

a picture is worth a thousand words a picture paints a thousand words bigger picture big-picture B-picture closet-picture counterpicture depicture desktop picture devil's picture books dickture Dirac picture eigenpicture enter the picture get the picture Heisenberg picture interaction picture in the picture living picture micropicture mixed picture moving picture moving-picture theater multipicture out of the picture overpicture paint a rosy picture pen-picture pen picture Pictionary pictology picturable pictural picture black picture book picture box picture bride picture card picturecraft picture day picture desk picture dictionary picture disc picturedom picturedrome picture editor picture frame picture framing pictureful picturegoer picturegraph picture hat picture house picture-in-picture pictureless picturelike picture lock picturemaker picturemaking picture message
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