image

Universal Words noun 1 [C,U] the impression that a person, an organization or a product, etc. gives to the public: His public image is very different from the real person. * The advertisements are intended to improve the company's image. * Image is very important in the music world. * stereotyped images of women in children's books 2 [C] a mental picture that you have of what sb/sth is like or looks like: images of the past * I always had an image of her standing by that particular window. 3 [C] (formal) a copy of sb/sth in the form of a picture or statue: Images of deer and hunters decorate the cave walls. * a wooden image of the Hindu god Ganesh * In the Bible it states that humans were created in the image of God. 4 [C] a picture of sb/sth seen in a mirror, through a camera, or on a television or computer: He stared at his own image reflected in the water. * Slowly, an image began to appear on the screen. seealsoMIRRORIMAGE 5 [C] a word or phrase that describes sth in an imaginative way: poetic images of the countryside IDIOMS be the image of sb