picture

English Online Dictionary. What means picture‎? What does picture mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle English pycture, from Old French picture, itself from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”), from pingō (“I paint”). Doublet of pictura.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪk(t)ʃə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪk(t)ʃəɹ/
• (regional, informal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
• Homophone: pitcher (regional)
• Rhymes: -ɪktʃə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: pic‧ture

Noun

picture (plural pictures)

1. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
2. An image; a representation as in the imagination.
3. A painting.
4. A photograph.
5. (dated) A motion picture.
6. (in the plural, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).

7. A paragon, a perfect example or specimen (of a category).
8. An attractive sight.
9. The art of painting; representation by painting.
10. A figure; a model.
11. Situation.

12. (MLE) A sample of an illegal drug.

13. (programming) A format string in the COBOL programming language.

Synonyms

• (representation as in the imagination): image

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Krio: pikchɔ

Translations

Verb

picture (third-person singular simple present pictures, present participle picturing, simple past and past participle pictured)

1. (transitive) To represent in or with a picture.
2. (transitive) To imagine or envision.
3. (transitive) To depict or describe vividly.

Related terms

• depict
• depiction
• pictorial

Translations

See also

• Picture dictionary

Further reading

• “picture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “picture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• cuprite

Latin

Participle

pictūre

1. vocative masculine singular of pictūrus

Norman

Etymology

From Old French picture, borrowed from Latin pictūra (“the art of painting, a painting”) (compare the inherited Old French form peinture), from pingō, pingere (“paint; decorate, embellish”), from Proto-Indo-European *peyḱ- (“spot, color”).

Noun

picture f (plural pictures)

1. (Guernsey) picture