Definition of picture

• n. - The art of painting; representation by painting.
• n. - A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model.
• n. - An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief.
• v. t. - To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind.