word-picture
word-picture noun: a verbal or written description of scenery or a setting for some action.
Noun
word-picture (plural word-pictures)
- A verbal or written description of scenery or a setting for some action.
- Official despatches are never padded with word-pictures; and few bushmen have the time, though they may have an eye to the picturesque, to jot down anything but the briefest outline of what they have done and seen during the day in their pocket-books before they roll themselves in their blanket and...1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 316
- Sketching word pictures is effective in, broadly, three ways: • You take readers on a featurish ride, with a motive no more complicated than letting them experience vicariously what you have seen first-hand. […]2019, Conrad C. Fink, Writing to Inform and Engage, page 98
word-picture meaning in Kannada
word-picture in Kannada
- ಶಬ್ದಚಿತ್ರ, ನುಡಿಚಿತ್ರ
Forms of word-picture
| plural | word-pictures |
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Questions about word-picture
- What does word-picture mean?
- Word-picture means a verbal or written description of scenery or a setting for some action.
- What is word-picture in Kannada?
- Word-picture in Kannada is ಶಬ್ದಚಿತ್ರ, ನುಡಿಚಿತ್ರ. See Word-picture meaning in Kannada.
- What part of speech is word-picture?
- Word-picture is a noun.
- What is the plural of word-picture?
- The plural of word-picture is word-pictures.
Words near word-picture in the dictionary
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