picture

Meanings

Noun

• A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
• An image; a representation as in the imagination.
• A painting.
• A photograph.
• A motion picture.
• Cinema .
• A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
• An attractive sight.
• The art of painting; representation by painting.
• A figure; a model.
• Situation.
• A sample of an illegal drug.

Verb

• To represent in or with a picture.
• To imagine or envision.
• To depict or describe vividly.

Related

Similar words

• image

Narrower meaning words

• big picture
• motion picture

Origin

• From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pictūra ("the art of painting, a painting"), from pingō. pictura.