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Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun an iconic mental representation
  2. noun (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world
  3. noun a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

Etymology

From Middle English ymage, borrowed from Old French image, from Latin imāgō (“a copy, likeness, image”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eym-; the same PIE root is the source of imitari (“to copy, imitate”); see imitate. Doublet of imago.

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