picture book
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- noun
- /ˈpɪk.tʃər bʊk/
- Baby Talk
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libro ilustrado
- The children eagerly flipped through the colorful picture book during storytime.
- a wordless picture book
- a digital picture book
- children's picture books
So that picture book resonates with me still.
- So that picture book resonates with me still.
- You, you show a young child a picture book with couple picture of an elephant and that's it.
- It's a children's picture book, so the parents can read to their little ones and introduce them to this chapter of American history.
Examples
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I remember that I even had a picture book about his life.
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Many of us certainly remember our picture books vividly and treasure our association with them.
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But I would put big picture books in front of people.
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"It is even more beautiful than in the picture book.
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Would you mind if I took these picture books with me?
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Here, buy a nice picture book.
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Do you show each other your picture books?
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I gave him my picture book and then he went away.
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I have a picture book of New York.
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It's a children's picture book, so the parents can read to their little ones and introduce them to this chapter of American history.
Synonyms
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A book with stories for children
How Visual
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a book made mainly of pictures' is directly derivable from combining 'picture' (an image) with 'book' (a bound set of pages); this simple noun–noun compounding follows a regular compositional pattern. There is no idiomatic or metaphorical shift and equivalent constructions exist across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
The name picture book comes from the simple idea of a picture and a book joined together. These were books where the story is told mostly by pictures rather than words, so today the term means a 'children's book' with little or no text.