depiction

English

Etymology

From French dépiction, from Latin dēpictiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɪkʃən/

• Audio (southern England)

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Noun

depiction (plural depictions)

1. a lifelike image of something, either verbal or visual
2. a drawing or painting
3. a representation
   • 2005 May 23, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, The World Hitler Never Made: Alternate History and the Memory of Nazism‎^[1], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 182:

     If Demandt's essay served as a strident example of the German desire for normalcy, a more subtle example was provided by a brief allohistorical depiction of a Nazi victory in World War II written by German historian Michael Salewski in 1999.

Related terms

• depict

Translations

lifelike image

• Bengali: বর্ণনা (bn) (borṇona)
• Catalan: representació (ca) f
• Danish: afbildning (da) c
• Dutch: uitbeelding (nl) f, afbeelding (nl) f
• Finnish: kuvaus (fi)
• French: représentation (fr) f
• Galician: representación (gl) f
• German: Darstellung (de) f, Abbildung (de) f
• Greek: απεικόνιση (el) f (apeikónisi)
• Italian: dipinto (it) m, descrizione (it) f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avbildning m or f

• Polish: przedstawienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: retrato (pt) f
• Romanian: reprezentare (ro) f
• Russian: изображе́ние (ru) n (izobražénije)
• Spanish: representación (es)

drawing or painting

• Dutch: afbeelding (nl) f
• Finnish: kuva (fi)
• French: dépiction (fr)
• Portuguese: ilustração (pt) m

representation

• Finnish: kuvaus (fi)
• German: Schilderung (de) f
• Hungarian: ábrázolás (hu)
• Latvian: attēlojums m

Anagrams

• pectinoid