Middle English, from Anglo-French representer, from Latin repraesentare, from re- + praesentare to present. 14th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 6a (1) 1564, in the meaning defined …

REPRESENT definition: to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize. See examples of represent used in a sentence.

REPRESENTING meaning: 1. present participle of represent 2. to speak, act, or be present officially for another person or…. Learn more.

Definition of represent verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [often passive] represent somebody/something to be a member of a group of people and act or speak for them at an event, a …

1. to stand as an equivalent of; correspond to: our tent represents home to us when we go camping. 3. to act as or be the authorized delegate or agent for (a person, country, etc): an MP represents his …

The politician was angry with the newspaper for representing [= portraying] his party negatively.

Dreams represent part of our lives that were saved in our memory, in our unconscious, because on the day we repress many of our desires. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web.

Synonyms for REPRESENTING: describing, characterizing, portraying, depicting, defining, identifying, charactering, classifying, indicating, categorizing

REPRESENTING definition: 1. present participle of represent 2. to speak, act, or be present officially for another person or…. Learn more.

They chose a famous barrister to represent them in court. Union officials representing the teachers met the government today. I sent my husband to represent me at the funeral. Women were well/ poorly …