picture
noun
a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc..
pictures
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pluralof picture.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof picture (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
picturenouna visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc..
Example Sentences
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Crowds stand outside looking at old photos posted on bulletin boards, pictures taken of people before they were rounded up and transported to Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Here are some of the best pictures from across Yorkshire submitted to BBC Weather Watchers.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
With the technological abilities of modern cameras, including those on your phone, you can take good pictures of eclipses and other solar activity like sunspots, which look like dark patches on the Sun's surface.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
With Canada this summer, scary pictures won out over compelling statistics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
And other things, things that could be monitored were cell phone pictures, and computer hard drives, and .
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
