## Meanings
1. A picture, photo, or representation of someone or something.
2. The impression that a person, company, or thing gives to the public.
3. A picture that you form in your mind.

## Examples
- The photographer printed the image and hung it on the wall.
- Bad customer service can harm a company's image.
- She had a clear image of her childhood home in her mind.

## Synonyms
- picture

## Derived Forms
- afterimage
- bioimage
- coimage
- counterimage
- eigenimage
- five-image
- fluoroimage
- four-image
- holoimage
- imageability
- imageable
- imageboard

## Related Forms
- imaginable
- imaginary
- imagination
- imaginative
- imagine

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: ymage
- Root: image
- Root: imāgō
- Root: *h₂eym-

## Etymology
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.

## AI Etymology
Image comes 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. In current use, the main senses are “A picture, photo, or representation of someone or something” and “The impression that a person, company, or thing gives to the public”.

## Topics
- Art & Music

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