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How to pronounce picture
Say it like this: /ˈpɪk.t͡ʃə/. Listen to real recordings below and compare how it sounds in different accents.
What does picture mean?
nounA representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
An image; a representation as in the imagination.
“My eyes make pictures when they are shut.”
A painting.
“There was a picture hanging above the fireplace.”
verbTo represent in or with a picture.
“What is striking about the self portrait is that the patient had pictured herself as a much younger woman”
To imagine or envision.
“Picture yourself on a boat on a river / With tangerine trees and marmalade skies”
To depict or describe vividly.
“The sketch pictured here takes in the whole scene.”
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