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Abbild — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • adumbration noun The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
  • effigy noun A crude model or figure made to represent a person or group, often so it can be mocked, burned, or destroyed in protest.
  • image noun A visual representation of something, such as a picture, photo, or drawing.
  • likeness noun The quality of resembling someone or something; a similarity.
  • picture noun A drawing, painting, or photograph representing something.
  • portrayal noun The way someone or something is represented or depicted, especially in a performance or artwork.
  • reflection noun An image or copy of something formed by light bouncing off a surface.

Senses

Abbild is used for these senses in English:

  • adumbration (countable, uncountable, figuratively) A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.
  • adumbration (countable, philosophy, specifically phenomenology) The form of an object as seen by an observer.
  • effigy A dummy or other crude representation of a person, group or object that is hated.
  • image A mental picture of something not real or not present.
  • likeness That which closely resembles; a portrait.
  • picture A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, by drawing, painting, printing, photography, etc.
  • reflection The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.

adumbration — full definition

  1. noun The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
  2. noun A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
  3. noun The supposed practice of displaying only outline of a charge (“image displayed on an escutcheon”), sometimes filled in with a darker shade than the field.
  4. noun A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.

effigy — full definition

  1. noun A crude model or figure made to represent a person or group, often so it can be mocked, burned, or destroyed in protest.
  2. noun A sculpture or image representing a specific person.

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