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portrait

[ pawr-trit, -treyt, pohr- ]

noun

  1. a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph:

    a gallery of family portraits.

  2. a verbal picture or description, usually of a person:

    a biography that provides a fascinating portrait of an 18th-century rogue.



adjective

  1. Digital Technology. relating to or producing vertical, upright orientation of computer or other digital output, with lines of data parallel to the two shorter sides of a page or screen. Compare landscape. Compare landscape ( def 8 ).

portrait

/ -treɪt; ˈpɔːtrɪt /

noun

    1. a painting, drawing, sculpture, photograph, or other likeness of an individual, esp of the face
    2. ( as modifier )

      a portrait gallery

  1. a verbal description or picture, esp of a person's character


adjective

  1. printing (of a publication or an illustration in a publication) of greater height than width Compare landscape

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Other Words From

  • portrait·like adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of portrait1

1560–70; < Middle French: a drawing, image, etc., noun use of past participle of portraire to portray

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Example Sentences

The squabble was also immortalized in this incredibly awkward family portrait.

A portrait of him was done once in which the collar point was made to sit in its proper place.

All of which makes David Freeman's portrait of Hitchcock in his final days all the more poignant.

She slow-motion jogs through the courtyard, paints his portrait, and carves his name into a tree.

She was close to her father, who painted her a birthday portrait every year.

Her best-known works are portrait busts, which are numerous.

Daughter of Gustav Graf and wife of the portrait painter, Lepsius.

They are unique; that lady there is the Du Barry—a portrait worth, alone, six thousand francs.

Any one may possess the portrait of a tragedian without exciting suspicion or comment.

The other was the spirited portrait of Baron von Friedericks, a happy combination of cavalier and soldier in its manly strength.

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