pictures

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.
   • Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC
2. An image; a representation as in the imagination.
   • My eyes make pictures when they are shut.1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A Day Dream

   Synonyms:

   image

3. A painting.
   • There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.
4. A photograph.
   • I took a picture of the church.
5. (India, dated) A motion picture.
   • Casablanca is my all-time favorite picture.
6. (in plural, informal) ("the pictures") Cinema (as a form of entertainment).
   • Let's go to the pictures.

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