image

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A picture, photo, or representation of someone or something.

   The photographer printed the image and hung it on the wall.

2. 2
   noun

   The impression that a person, company, or thing gives to the public.

   Bad customer service can harm a company's image.

3. 3
   noun

   A picture that you form in your mind.

   She had a clear image of her childhood home in her mind.

From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Doublet of imago.

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