picture

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A drawing, painting, or photograph of something or someone.

   They showed us the pictures from their wedding.

2. 2
   noun

   An image you form in your mind.

   The witness gave the police a clear picture of the man's face.

3. 3
   noun

   The general situation or state of something.

   The economic picture looks much brighter this year.

4. 4
   noun

   The image you see on a television or screen.

   We could hear the sound, but the picture had disappeared.

Common collocations

• draw a picture Verb + noun
• paint a picture Verb + noun
• take a picture Verb + noun
• mental picture Adjective + noun
• hang a picture Verb + noun

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.

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