- image
- /'ImIdZ/ noun (C)
1 PUBLIC OPINION the general opinion that most people have of a person, organization, product etc: The party is seeking to improve its image with women voters. | project an image (=make an image): The princess aimed to project an image of herself as serious and hard-working.2 IDEA IN MIND a picture that you have in your mind, especially about what someone or something is like or the way they look: She had a clear image of how she would look in twenty years' time. | He didn't really conform to the hard-drinking, hard-living image of the political journalist.3 PICTURE/WHAT YOU SEEa) a picture of an object in a mirror or in the lens (2) of a camera: She gazed at her image in the glass.b) a picture on the screen 1 (1) screen 1 (2) of a television, cinema, or computer: The image on a computer screen is made up of thousands of pixels.c) a copy of the shape of a person or thing, especially cut in wood, stone etc: carved images in the rocks4 DESCRIPTION a phrase or word that describes something in a poetic way: the image of man as a prisoner of the gods5 be the (very/living/spitting) image of to look exactly like someone or something else: He's the very image of his father.6 in the image of literary in the same form or shape as someone or something else: According to the Bible, man was made in the image of God.—see also: mirror image
Longman dictionary of contemporary English. 2004.