image
pronunciation
How to pronounce image in British English:
UK [ˈɪmɪdʒ]
How to pronounce image in American English:
US [ˈɪmɪdʒ]
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- Noun:
- an iconic mental representation
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
- (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
- a standard or typical example
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
- a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
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- Verb:
- imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
Word Origin
- image
- image: [13] Latin imāgō meant a ‘likeness of something’ (it probably came from the same source as imitate). It subsequently developed a range of secondary senses, such as ‘echo’ and ‘ghost’, which have not survived the journey via Old French into English, but the central ‘likeness’ remains in place. Derived from the noun in Latin was the verb imāginārī ‘form an image of in one’s mind, picture to oneself’, which became English imagine [14]. (Latin imāgō, incidentally, was used in the 1760s by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus for an ‘adult insect’ – based on the Latin sense ‘natural shape’, the idea being that the insect had achieved its final perfect form after various pupal forms – and English took the term over at the end of the 18th century.)=> imitate
- image (n.)
- c. 1200, "piece of statuary; artificial representation that looks like a person or thing," from Old French image "image, likeness; figure, drawing, portrait; reflection; statue," earlier imagene (11c.), from Latin imaginem (nominative imago) "copy, statue, picture," figuratively "idea, appearance," from stem of imitari "to copy, imitate" (see imitation). Meaning "reflection in a mirror" is early 14c. The mental sense was in Latin, and appears in English late 14c. Sense of "public impression" is attested in isolated cases from 1908 but not in common use until its rise in the jargon of advertising and public relations, c. 1958.
- image (v.)
- late 14c., "to form a mental picture," from Old French imagier, from image (see image (n.)). Related: Imaged; imaging.
Synonym
Example
- 1. And then there are image concerns .
- 2. The image is supposed to represent a healthy diet .
- 3. The placid lake reflected the image of the trees .
- 4. Enlargement fatigue has a mirror image : apathy and resentment .
- 5. Developing and maintaining a healthy body image isn 't an easy task for girls .