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- Dictionarydepiction/dɪˈpɪkʃn/
noun
- 1. the action of depicting something, especially in a work of art: "the painting's horrific depiction of war" Similar
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DEPICTION definition: 1. the way that something is represented or shown, or something that represents or shows something…. Learn more.
: a representation in words or images of someone or something. The book is fascinating in its depiction of the country's early history. The first part of the book … is a depiction of the nearly lost world of a North American hunter-gatherer community. Timothy Egan.
A depiction is a true representation of something, like the depiction of life as a Jewish teenager in hiding during World War II in Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl." The word depiction comes from the Latin word for "painting or description," depictionem.
DEPICTION meaning: 1. the way that something is represented or shown, or something that represents or shows something…. Learn more.
Depiction definition: representation in image form, as in a painting or illustration. See examples of DEPICTION used in a sentence.
If you depict someone or something, you show what that person or thing is like—either in some kind of image (such as a drawing, painting, photograph, or movie), or with words. What results from your efforts to depict that person or thing can be called a depiction.
A depiction of something is a picture or a written description of it. The lecture will trace the depiction of horses from earliest times to the present day. American English : depiction / dɪˈpɪkʃən /
Depiction definition: A <a>lifelike</a> <a>image</a> of something, either <a>verbal</a> or <a>visual.</a>.
1. To represent in a picture or sculpture: Each page's border has designs that depict forest animals. 2. To represent in words; describe: stories that depict life on the frontier. [Middle English depicten, from Latin dēpingere, dēpict- : dē-, de- + pingere, to picture; see peig- in Indo-European roots .] de·pic′tion n.
noun. /dɪˈpɪkʃn/ [uncountable, countable] (rather formal) the act of showing somebody/something in a particular way in words or pictures, especially in a work of art. They object to the movie's depiction of gay people. Rembrandt's earlier depictions of Saskia. Definitions on the go.
