• noun:   an iconic mental representation

  Example: "Her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"

• noun:   a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture)

  Example: "The emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"

• noun:   a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

  Example: "A movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"

• noun:   (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world

  Example: "A public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"

• noun:   someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor)

  Example: "She's the very image of her mother"

• noun:   a standard or typical example

  Example: "He provided America with an image of the good father"

• noun:   language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
• verb:   imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

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