I. car ‧ i ‧ ca ‧ ture 1 /ˈkærɪkətʃʊə $ -tʃʊr/ BrE AmE noun
[ Date: 1700-1800 ; Language: French ; Origin: Italian caricatura , from caricare 'to load, make seem larger, worse, etc.' , from Late Latin carricare ; ⇨ ↑ charge 2 ]
1 . [countable] a funny drawing of someone that makes them look silly
caricature of
caricatures of politicians.
2 . [countable] a description of someone or something that is only partly true and makes them seem silly
caricature of
The report presents a caricature of the true situation.
3 . [uncountable] the activity of drawing or writing caricatures
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THESAURUS
▪ picture shapes, lines etc painted or drawn on a surface, especially as a piece of art, and often showing what someone or something looks like:
a picture of a horse
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He painted the picture in 1890, just before he died.
▪ drawing a picture drawn with a pencil, pen etc:
We had to do a drawing of a sunflower.
▪ sketch a picture that is drawn quickly:
I made a quick sketch of the kind of room we wanted.
▪ painting a picture made using paint:
The painting now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art.
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Picasso did several paintings of her.
▪ portrait a picture of a person:
The portrait was painted by Rembrandt.
▪ landscape a picture of a place, especially in the countryside or the mountains:
Constable painted mainly landscapes.
▪ cartoon a funny drawing in a newspaper or magazine that tells a story or a joke:
A cartoon in the New York Times showed the President talking to Osama Bin Laden.
▪ comic strip a series of pictures drawn inside boxes that tell a story:
Charles Schultz was famous for his cartoon strip about Snoopy and Charlie Brown.
▪ caricature a funny drawing of someone that makes a part of someone’s face or body look bigger, worse etc than it really is, especially in a funny way:
He is famous for his caricatures of politicans.
▪ illustration a picture in a book:
The book has over 100 pages of illustrations, most of them in colour.
▪ poster a large picture printed on paper that you stick to a wall as decoration:
old movie posters
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There were lots of posters of pop bands on her bedroom wall.
▪ print a picture that is usually produced on a ↑ printing press , and is one of a series of copies of the same picture:
a limited edition of lithographic prints by John Lennon
▪ image a picture – used especially when talking about what the picture is like, or the effect it has on you:
He produced some memorable images.
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a beautiful image
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Some of the images are deeply disturbing.
▪ artwork pictures or photographs, especially ones that have been produced to be used in a book or magazine:
We are still waiting for the artwork to come back from the printers.
II. caricature 2 BrE AmE verb [transitive]
to draw or describe someone or something in a way that makes them seem silly
caricature somebody/something as something
Scientists are often caricatured as absent-minded professors.