an image that is painted, drawn, printed, etc. on a surface: The children drew pictures of their houses. Could I paint your picture (=paint a picture of you)?
►drawing
a picture that is made using a pencil or pen: The teachers asked the students to do a drawing of a tree.
►sketch
a picture that is drawn quickly: Students made quick sketches of the model using charcoal.
►painting
a picture made using paint: There was a painting of a mountain over the fireplace.
►portrait
a painting, drawing, or photograph of a person: She offered to paint my portrait.
►illustration
a picture in a book: The children’s book is full of colorful illustrations.
►cartoon
a funny drawing in a newspaper or magazine that tells a story or a joke: In the cartoon, two rabbits are talking to each other.
►caricature
a funny drawing of someone that makes a particular feature of his/her face or body look bigger, worse, etc. than it really is: There was a man at the market drawing caricatures of tourists.
►poster
a large picture printed on paper, used as advertising or for decoration: There were huge posters of the dictator everywhere.
►image
formal a picture or shape of a person or thing that is put on something else: The image of George Washington appears on the one dollar bill.
►graphics
pictures or images, especially those produced on a computer: The new computer game has 3-D graphics.
1 [countable] a painting, drawing, or photograph of a person: a family portraitportrait of a portrait of George Washington► see thesaurus at picture12[countable] a description or representation of something, for example in a story, play, etc.: portrait of His stories are all harsh portraits of life on the street.3[uncountable] a way of arranging a piece of paper, a photograph, etc. that is to be printed so that its longer edges are at the sides and its shorter edges are at the top and bottom → see alsolandscape mode, self-portrait