someone who closely resembles a famous person ( especially an actor); " he could be Gingrich's double"; " she's the very image of her mother"

a representation of a person ( especially in the form of sculpture); " the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; " the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"

a standard or typical example; " he is the prototype of good breeding"; " he provided America with an image of the good father"

language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

a visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface; " they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; " a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"

an iconic mental representation; " her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"

( Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; " a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"

a standard or typical example; " he is the protoof good breeding"; " he provided America with an image of the good father"

An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; an effigy; a picture; a semblance.

Hence: The likeness of anything to which worship is paid; an idol.

Show; appearance; cast.

A representation of anything to the mind; a picture drawn by the fancy; a conception; an idea.

A picture, example, or illustration, often taken from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor.

The figure or picture of any object formed at the focus of a lens or mirror, by rays of light from the several points of the object symmetrically refracted or reflected to corresponding points in such focus; this may be received on a screen, a photographic plate, or the retina of the eye, and viewed directly by the eye, or with an eyeglass, as in the telescope and microscope; the likeness of an object formed by reflection; as, to see one's image in a mirror.

To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.

To represent to the mental vision; to form a likeness of by the fancy or recollection; to imagine.

To form, or reflect, a likeness of; represent to the mental vision; imagine.

Likeness: a statue: an idol: a representation in the mind, an idea: a picture in the imagination: ( optics) the figure of any object formed by rays of light.

To form an image of: to form a likeness of in the mind.

A likeness; statue; idol; idea; figure.

To form a mental likeness of.

To form an image of; portray; resemble.

A visible representation; a statue, picture, idol, etc.; an idea; a figure of speech.

A material representation or likeness of anything, as a statue; a likeness; an idol; appearance; an idea or conception; a picture drawn by fancy; a lively description of anything in discourse; the figure of any object made by rays of light proceeding from the several points of it.

To form an image of; to form a likeness in the mind. See Imitate.

A representation or figure of any person or thing, as an idol; a statue; a description in discourse; a picture formed in the mind; an idea.

To represent or form a likeness of; to imagine.

Even the image of Mrs. Van Brandt- except when the conversation had turned on her- had become a faint image in my mind! – The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins

Now you desire to make a change; you want that image to speak, act, and think only for you. – How to Live a Holy Life by C. E. Orr

Of course, the priest would give out that I had stolen the image. – Through Five Republics on Horseback by G. Whitfield Ray

Faith was content; her soft eyes resting on her own image in the little mirror were like the eyes of one who dreams dreams and sees visions. – The Sea Bride by Ben Ames Williams

I knew it not then,- to you do I swear, I thought it was little for him I did care; Now I see I must die of a grief- broken heart, Yet his image will never depart! – Early Plays Catiline, The Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans by Henrik Ibsen

And you, each and all, reply with me- to the great man whose image we behold." – The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

I am still thine image, my dear, only I was the image of what thou wert, and now I the image of what thou shalt be when two score years and ten of happy life have worn for thee. – The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris

I have kept your image before me. – Breaking Point by James E. Gunn

And to that it must come with every one of us, for not until then are we true men, true women- the children, that is, of him in whose image we are made. – Warlock o' Glenwarlock by George MacDonald

We close our eyes and would fain image the scene. – A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix

That image was passion. – Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

I left him standing like a frozen image, staring after me. – First Person Paramount by Ambrose Pratt

And then the image of George Fairfax rose before her, and the memory of those bitter words, " It means Arden Court." – The Lovels of Arden by M. E. Braddon

He knew not that it was his own image, but thought that he saw a youth living in the spring. – Good Stories For Great Holidays Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott

They like to Form their own image of me, just as the poet has done. – Erotica Romana by Johann Wolfgang Goethe

" Now, Master," he whispered to me, " rise and wave your sword and shout aloud, to show that you are alive and not an image." – The Virgin of the Sun by H. R. Haggard

Dr Johnson said, 'he never had the image before. – The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell

There was no clear image of Par in her mind before meeting him in person. – Underground by Suelette Dreyfus

Where could we meet with a more smiling image than that of Mme. – Bastien Lepage by Fr. Crastre