Mona Lisa

American  

[moh-nuh lee-suh, lee-zuh] / ˈmoʊ nə ˈli sə, ˈli zə /

noun

1. Italian La Gioconda.  a portrait (1503?–05?) by Leonardo da Vinci.

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Mona Lisa British  

/ ˈməʊnə ˈliːzə /

noun

1. Also called: La Gioconda.  a portrait of a young woman painted by Leonardo da Vinci, admired for her enigmatic smile

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Mona Lisa Cultural  

1. A painting by Leonardo da Vinci of a woman with a mysterious smile. It is one of the most readily recognized paintings in the world.

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Example Sentences

It is fitting, in fact, to see her as the Mona Lisa of Greco-Roman Egypt, a woman of undeniable yet enigmatic beauty.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Mona Lisa is always on display at the Louvre, Michelangelo’s David in Florence.

From The Wall Street Journal

The fire brigade had to be called overnight after a burst pipe in the Louvre's Denon wing, which houses some of the museum's most valuable exhibits including the Mona Lisa, according to a statement.

From Barron's

Yang noted that the Mona Lisa was used only as an example.

From Science Daily

By carefully designing the halftone patterns, they encoded the Mona Lisa image into flat films that later transformed into three-dimensional forms.

From Science Daily