Other forms: images
An image is a picture, or how somebody is seen by others. A clear image, public image, image problem.
The reputation sense is now at least as common as the picture one, and it is what public relations exists to manage. In computing an image is also a complete copy of a disk, which is a third and quite technical use.
1nounimageA picture, or how somebody is seen by others.
“The company is trying to improve its image after the scandal.”
image is a picture, or a reputation.
Latin imago means a copy or likeness. Imagine and imitate come from the same root.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂eym-
Latin
imāgō — a copy, likeness, image
Old French
image
Middle English
ymage
English, today
image
Built from
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. a doublet of imago.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA