picture

CEFRA1

/ˈpɪk.t͡ʃə/

noun · verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An image made by drawing, painting, or using a camera.

  2. 02

    verb

    To imagine or form a mental image of something.

Examples

  • I could picture the scene clearly.

  • Is it a recent picture?

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

Also pronounced

  • [ˈpʰɪ.t͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈpʰɪ.t͡ʃɹ̩]
  • [ˈpʰɪk.t͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈpʰɪk.t͡ʃɹ̩]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. A painting.

  2. An image; a representation as in the imagination.

  3. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.

More examples

In context

  • May I take your picture?

  • I took a picture of the church.

  • There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.

Synonyms

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She drew a beautiful blank of the sunset over the ocean.

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Origin

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.