depiction

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, 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) (bôrṇna) 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