ˈaɪ.kən ˈaɪ.kɑːn ˈɪmɪd͡ʒ ˈpɪktʃə ˈpɪk(t)ʃɚ a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface they showed us the pictures of their wedding a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them