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image

noun

1 an image of the Madonna:

likeness, resemblance;

depiction, portrayal, representation;

statue, statuette, sculpture, bust, effigy, figure, figurine, doll, carving;

painting, picture, portrait, drawing, sketch, artist's impression.

2 Voyager 2 sent back images of the planet Neptune:

picture, facsimile, photograph, snapshot, photo;

optical representation, reproduction.

3 he contemplated his image in the mirrors:

reflection, mirror image, likeness;

echo.

4 the world has an image of this country as democratic:

conception, impression, idea, concept, perception, notion;

mental picture, mental representation, conceptualization, vision, fancy, thought.

5 his poetry is constructed around biblical images:

simile, metaphor, metonymy;

figure of speech, trope, figurative expression, turn of phrase, rhetorical device, conceit;

word painting, word picture.

6 everyone expects him to live up to his heart-throb image:

public perception, public conception, public impression, persona, profile, face, identity, front, facade, mask, guise, role, part;

portrayal, depiction.

7 Ma says I'm the image of my grandfather:

double, living image, replica, lookalike, clone, copy, reproduction, twin, duplicate, exact likeness, facsimile, counterpart, mirror image;

German Doppelgänger;

informal very spit, dead spit, spitting image, chip off the old block, ringer, dead ringer;

archaic similitude.

8 a graven image:

idol, icon, fetish, false god, golden calf, totem, talisman.

verb

she imaged imposing castles and cathedrals:

envisage, envision, imagine, conceive of, picture, dream up, see in one's mind's eye.

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icono- related prefix iconography, iconology study of images