Word-picture
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Word-picture is a noun meaning A verbal or written description of scenery or a setting for some action.
Meaning
A verbal or written description of scenery or a setting for some action.
Example Sentences
Sketching word pictures is effective in, broadly, three ways: • You take readers on a featurish ride, with a motive no more complicated than letting them experience vicariously what you have seen first-hand. […]
Official despatches are never padded with word-pictures; and few bushmen have the time, though they may have an eye to the picturesque, to jot down anything but the briefest outline of what they have done and seen during the day in their pocket-books before they roll themselves in their blanket and "turn in."
Word Forms
- word-pictures
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include word painting, picture, visual, pictograph, iconograph, pictogram.
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