Synonyms for image


Grammar : Noun
Spell : im-ij
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɪm ɪdʒ

Top 10 synonyms for image Other synonyms for the word image

Définition of image

Origin :
  • 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.
  • noun representation; counterpart
  • noun concept
Example sentences :
  • "So much the more need that we enshrine her image in our own hearts," rejoined Plato.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • In other words, though carved in ebony, he also was in the image of God.
  • Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams
  • We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • Towards the image of their friend who broke the laws of God.
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
  • Gradually the image of the middle-aged Robin had effaced his youth.
  • Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
  • Is it not most pitiful to see a human being, made in the image of God, sunk so low?
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • It is the falsehood of the silliest poetry to say he defies the image of his beloved.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • It was over his image that she had lingered that morning in her closet.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • So spake reason; but, in spite of all, her voice was ever in his ears and her image in his heart.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Let us imagine Man ere he began to make gods in his own image.
  • Extract from : « The Non-Christian Cross » by John Denham Parsons

Antonyms for image

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