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picture

About 67.45 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
  2. noun An image; a representation as in the imagination.
  3. noun A painting.
    There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.
  4. noun A photograph.
    I took a picture of the church.
  5. noun A motion picture.
    Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture.
  6. noun Cinema .
    Let's go to the pictures.
  7. noun A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
    She's the very picture of health.
  8. noun An attractive sight.
    The garden is a real picture at this time of year.

Similar words

impression image painting depict motion picture movie depiction moving picture picture show figure

Often followed by

of is in and was to that the on

Word family

pictured pictures picturing

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