image
an iconic mental representation
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,125 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,336 times across 175,113 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- an iconic mental representation also: mental image her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate
- (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world also: persona a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty
- a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface also: picture, icon, ikon they showed us the pictures of their weddinga movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them
- a standard or typical example also: prototype, paradigm, epitome he is the prototype of good breedinghe provided America with an image of the good father
- language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense also: trope, figure of speech, figure
- someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor) also: double, look-alike he could be Gingrich's doubleshe's the very image of her mother
image in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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You're the dead image uh your dad, Bill Thurston.
The Lure of the Dim Trails · B. M. Bower · Chapter 1
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The Image of God V. The Brook Ancient Spanish Ballads.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Chapter 1
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They forced him down, down in the suffocating darkness, a brutal image of destiny.
The Club of Queer Trades · G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton · Chapter 1
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He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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As he entered the house in Queen's Gate, a mirrored image of himself made him uneasy about his costume.
The Crown of Life · George Gissing · Chapter 1