Word Meanings - REPRESENTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of representing, in any sense of the verb. 2. That which represents. Specifically: A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like. A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical

Additional info about word: REPRESENTATION

1. The act of representing, in any sense of the verb. 2. That which represents. Specifically: A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like. A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet. A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a witness, or an advocate. The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress. Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced. 3. The state of being represented. Syn. -- Description; show; delineaton; portraiture; likeness; resemblance; exhibition; sight.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REPRESENTATION)

• Diplomacy
• Embassy
• ministry
• ambassadorship
• representation
• tact
• contrivance
• management
• negotiation
• outwitting
• circumvention
• Effigy
• Statue
• figure
• image
• Emblem
• Device
• cognizance
• sign
• token
• symbol
• type
• badge
• mark
• Image
• likeness
• effigy
• copy
• metaphor
• idea
• conception
• fiction
• shadow
• picture
• vision
• Likeness
• Similarity
• resemblance
• correspondence
• similitude
• parity
• imitation
• portrait
• carte de visite

Related words: (words related to REPRESENTATION)

• SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
  Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
• STATUELESS
  Without a statue.
• METAPHORIST
  One who makes metaphors.
• CARTEL
  An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners. Wilhelm. 2. A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat. He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel., Sir W. Scott. Cartel, or Cartel ship, a ship employed in the
• BADGELESS
  Having no badge. Bp. Hall.
• STATUED
  Adorned with statues. "The statued hall." Longfellow. "Statued niches." G. Eliot.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• VISIONARY
  1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
• BADGE
  A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one. (more info) AS. beág, beáh, bracelet, collar, crown, OS b in comp., AS. b to bow, 1. A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person;
• BADGERING
  1. The act of one who badgers. 2. The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit.
• SYMBOLISM
  The science of creeds; symbolics. (more info) 1. The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms. 2. A system
• EMBLEMIZE
  To represent by an emblem; to emblematize.
• BADGER
  An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• CONCEPTIONAL
  Pertaining to conception.
• NEGOTIATION
  1. The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc. 2. Hence, mercantile business; trading. Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies.
• TOKENLESS
  Without a token.
• STATUELIKE
  Like a statue; motionless.
• EFFIGY
  The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes
• CARTE DE VISITE
  1. A visiting card. 2. A photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• BETOKEN
  1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• FISSIPARITY
  Quality of being fissiparous; fissiparism.
• MISDIVISION
  Wrong division.
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• LIVING PICTURE
  A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.