–noun

1.	(often initial capital letter) Pali, nibbana. Buddhism. freedom from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations, with their consequent suffering, as a result of the extinction of individual passion, hatred, and delusion: attained by the Arhat as his goal but postponed by the Bodhisattva.

2.	< 377 span class="labset">(often initial capital letter) Hinduism. salvation through the union of Atman with Brahma; moksha.

3.	a place or state characterized by freedom from or oblivion to pain, worry, and the external world.

–noun

1.	a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.

2.	any visible image, however produced: pictures reflected in a pool of water.

3.	a mental image: a clear picture of how he had looked that day.

4.	a particular image or reality as portrayed in an account or description; depiction; version.

5.	a tableau, as in theatrical representation.

6.	motion picture.

7.	pictures, Informal: Older Use. movies.

8.	a person, thing, group, or scene regarded as resembling a work of pictorial art in beauty, fineness of appearance, etc.: She was a picture in her new blue dress.

9.	the image or perfect likeness of someone else: He is the picture of his father.

10.	a visible or concrete embodiment of some quality or condition: the picture of health.

11.	a situation or set of circumstances: the economic picture.

12.	the image on a computer monitor, the viewing screen of a television set, or a motion-picture screen.

–verb (used with object)

13.	to represent in a picture or pictorially, as by painting or drawing.

14.	to form a mental picture of; imagine: He couldn't picture himself doing such a thing.

15.	to depict in words; describe graphically: He pictured Rome so vividly that you half-believed you were there.

16.	to present or create as a setting; portray: His book pictured the world of the future.