image
Synonyms:
(noun) alter ego, carbon, carbon copy, clone, counterpart, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), double, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, fetch, figure, likeness, look-alike, match, mirror image, notion, picture, replica, representation, ringer, spit, spitting image, twin.
(verb) depict, picture, portray, represent.
Related Words:
(noun) appearance, drawing, form, icon, idea, illustration, impression, photograph, portrait, model, notion, perception, simulacrum, statue, thought.
Antonym:
original.
Synonym Study (Dictionary.com):
Image, icon, and idol refer to material representations of persons or things.
An image is a representation as in a statue or effigy, and is sometimes regarded as an object of worship:
to set up an image of Apollo; an image of a saint.
An icon, in the Greek or Eastern Orthodox Church, is a representation of Christ, an angel, or a saint, in painting, relief, mosaic, or the like:
At least two icons are found in each church.
An idol is an image, statue, or the like representing a deity and worshiped as such:
a wooden idol; The heathen worship idols.
It may be used figuratively:
to make an idol of wealth.
Origin:
First recorded in 1175–1225; (noun) Middle English from Old French image, imagene (-ene apparently construed as suffix) from Latin imāgin-, stem of imāgō “a copy, likeness,” equivalent to im- (cf. imitate) + -āgō noun suffix; (verb) Middle English: “to form a mental picture” from Old French imagier, derivative of image. Dictionary 2: C13: from Old French imagene, from Latin imāgō copy, representation; related to Latin imitārī to imitate. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of image: Noun: 13th century. Verb: 14th century. History and Etymology for image: Noun: Middle English, "effigy, figure, mental impression of something observed, reflection, resemblance," borrowed from Anglo-French, shortened from imagene, borrowed from Latin imāgin-, imāgō "representation, reflection, apparition, semblance, copy, visible form," from imā- (probably the stem of an otherwise unattested verb *imārī with the same base as imitārī "to follow as a pattern, copy") + -gin-, -gō, denominal or deverbal noun suffix — more at imitate. Verb: Middle English imagen, in part derivative of image image entry 1, in part borrowed from Middle French ymagier "to imagine," derivative of image. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
(noun) alter ego, carbon, carbon copy, clone, counterpart, doppelgänger (or doppelganger), double, duplicate, duplication, facsimile, fetch, figure, likeness, look-alike, match, mirror image, notion, picture, replica, representation, ringer, spit, spitting image, twin.
(verb) depict, picture, portray, represent.
Related Words:
(noun) appearance, drawing, form, icon, idea, illustration, impression, photograph, portrait, model, notion, perception, simulacrum, statue, thought.
Antonym:
original.
Synonym Study (Dictionary.com):
Image, icon, and idol refer to material representations of persons or things.
An image is a representation as in a statue or effigy, and is sometimes regarded as an object of worship:
to set up an image of Apollo; an image of a saint.
An icon, in the Greek or Eastern Orthodox Church, is a representation of Christ, an angel, or a saint, in painting, relief, mosaic, or the like:
At least two icons are found in each church.
An idol is an image, statue, or the like representing a deity and worshiped as such:
a wooden idol; The heathen worship idols.
It may be used figuratively:
to make an idol of wealth.
Origin:
First recorded in 1175–1225; (noun) Middle English from Old French image, imagene (-ene apparently construed as suffix) from Latin imāgin-, stem of imāgō “a copy, likeness,” equivalent to im- (cf. imitate) + -āgō noun suffix; (verb) Middle English: “to form a mental picture” from Old French imagier, derivative of image. Dictionary 2: C13: from Old French imagene, from Latin imāgō copy, representation; related to Latin imitārī to imitate. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of image: Noun: 13th century. Verb: 14th century. History and Etymology for image: Noun: Middle English, "effigy, figure, mental impression of something observed, reflection, resemblance," borrowed from Anglo-French, shortened from imagene, borrowed from Latin imāgin-, imāgō "representation, reflection, apparition, semblance, copy, visible form," from imā- (probably the stem of an otherwise unattested verb *imārī with the same base as imitārī "to follow as a pattern, copy") + -gin-, -gō, denominal or deverbal noun suffix — more at imitate. Verb: Middle English imagen, in part derivative of image image entry 1, in part borrowed from Middle French ymagier "to imagine," derivative of image. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.