picture
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈpɪk.tʃɚ/
:
personificación
- You're a picture of elegance.
Examples
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She is the most cultivated of ladies... and the picture of respectability.
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Through it all, Nome says Cricket was the picture of pure joy.
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- There we are, a picture of health.
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Clean Luke, of course, who looked to me like the very picture of a minister's son.
Fiction book (1991) -
His face is younger too; he looks the picture of a powerful young warrior.
Fiction book (1997) -
With his wife, head of the Law and Order League, Gatewood appears the picture of respectability.
Academic text (1999) -
Musically and dramatically, we have here a picture of the struggle between the profane and the sacred.
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Begum Jan slowly let go and consequently became a picture of melancholy and despair.
Fiction book (1993) -
He is the picture of kindness, always helping others in need.
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After her hard work, Jane became the picture of success in her career.
Synonyms
74
3.5
A picture or model that shows what something looks like
38
5.5
A person or thing that shows an idea, quality and feeling
30
7.4
A perfect example of a person or thing that shows a certain quality
7
6.5
A person who shows a quality very clearly
1
6.7
An example that shows something, or the act of showing something using an example
Idioms
58
3.7
A view of the whole situation and its most important facts rather than small details
Compounds
9
3.8
A large fixed window made of one big piece of glass that gives a clear view outside
An American group that gives the Oscars every year for work in movies
- Archaic
1
5.8
A long glass tube inside old televisions that makes the picture on the screen
- Specialized
1
8.1
A flat imagined surface in a picture that seems closest to the viewer
- Archaic
1
5.5
A show that tells a story with moving images and sound like a movie
A public show where moving pictures and sound tell a story, like a film at a cinema
A picture of a face made from what witnesses say to help police identify a suspect
- Specialized
Two photos you view together to make a three-dimensional picture
How Exemplary
Surface Forms
Etymology
Picture can mean a perfect example because people thought of a clear image or painting that shows a single quality very well. So calling someone the 'picture' of exhaustion means they look just like a clear image of being tired.