word picture

noun

1. a description in words, especially one that is unusually vivid:

   She drew a word picture of a South Pacific sunset.

word picture

noun

1. a verbal description, esp a vivid one

Word History and Origins

Origin of word picture¹

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

Instead, she paints word pictures of the tensions that bedevil urban policing.

From Washington Post

He had already had a description from Jacques Sabatier, but a word-picture from another source might make the man clearer to him.

From Project Gutenberg

Charcot's scheme of word-picture combination: 1, Auditory image.

From Project Gutenberg

Let me take you by a brief word picture to Italy, the first home of the pergola as we see it hereabouts today.

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Her fragile body, he relates in the graphic word picture he drew, enveloped her spirit but as a gauzy veil.

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He painted a vivid word picture of the distressing conditions under which soda was produced in the old-time factories.

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