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word-pictures

word-pictures is the plural of word-picture.

Meaning of word-picture

Noun

word-picture (plural word-pictures)

  1. 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

Questions about word-pictures

What is word-pictures the plural of?
Word-pictures is the plural of word-picture.

Words near word-pictures in the dictionary

  1. word-mincers
  2. word-of-mouth
  3. word-painting
  4. word-perfect
  5. word-picture
  6. word-pictures
  7. word-process
  8. word-processed
  9. word-processes
  10. word-processing
  11. word-processor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: word-pictures (page history and authors); word-picture (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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