image

/ˈɪmədʒ/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. an iconic mental representation
   “her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate”
2. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
   “a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty”
3. a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface
   “they showed us the pictures of their wedding”
4. a standard or typical example
   “he is the prototype of good breeding”
5. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
6. someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)
   “he could be Gingrich's double”
7. (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined
   “the image of f(x) = x^2 is the set of all non-negative real numbers if the domain of the function is the set of all real numbers”
8. the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public
   “although her popular image was contrived it served to inspire music and pageantry”
9. a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)
   “the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln”

verb

1. render visible, as by means of MRI
2. imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
   “I can't see him on horseback!”

Synonyms for image

• mental image
• persona
• picture
• icon
• ikon
• prototype
• paradigm
• epitome
• trope
• figure of speech
• figure
• double
• look-alike
• range
• range of a function
• effigy
• simulacrum
• visualize
• visualise
• envision
• project
• fancy
• see