image (images plural )
1 n-count If you have an image of something or someone, you have a picture or idea of them in your mind.
The image of art theft as a gentleman's crime is outdated...
2 n-count The image of a person, group, or organization is the way that they appear to other people.
The tobacco industry has been trying to improve its image.
3 n-count An image is a picture of someone or something.
FORMAL ...photographic images of young children...
4 n-count An image is a poetic description of something.
FORMAL The natural images in the poem are meant to be suggestive of realities beyond themselves.
5 If you are the image of someone else, you look very much like them.
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be the image of sb phrase
Marianne's son was the image of his father.
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mirror image
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spitting image
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