Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A likeness of a person, especially one showing the face, that is created by a painter or photographer, for example.
- noun A verbal representation or description, especially of a person.
- noun A dramatic representation of a character.
- noun The orientation of a page such that the longer side runs from top to bottom.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To portray; draw.
- noun A drawing, representation, delineation, or picture of a person or a thing; specifically, a picture of a person, drawn from life; especially, a picture or representation of the face; a likeness, whether executed in oil or water-color, in crayon, on steel, by photography, in marble, etc., but particularly in oil: as, a painter of portraits.
- noun A vivid description or delineation in words.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To portray; to draw.
- noun The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.
- noun Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person.
- noun a bust or statue representing the actual features or person of an individual; -- in distinction from an
ideal bust orstatue .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
- noun figuratively An accurate depiction of a mood.
- noun computing, printing a print mode or selection specifying the rectangle to be printed on having the vertical sides longer than the horizontal sides.
- verb obsolete To
portray ; todraw .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a word picture of a person's appearance and character
- noun any likeness of a person, in any medium
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Vallombrosa, which the said monk afterwards placed in an arbour covered with vines, regardless of the injuries of wind and rain -- Andrea, having some colours still left on his palette, took up a tile and called his wife to sit for her portrait, that all might see how well she had kept her good looks from her youth; but Lucrezia not being inclined to sit, he got a mirror and painted _his own portrait_ on the tile instead.
Fra Bartolommeo Leader Scott 1869
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Several are quite good, but the ultra-serious Nagin portrait is unintentionally hilarious.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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Droeshout's brass engraving is the title portrait on the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, the First Folio published in 1623, seven years after the playwright's death.
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Droeshout's brass engraving is the title portrait on the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays, the First Folio published in 1623, seven years after the playwright's death.
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So our portrait is the primary version of one of the greatest portraits of Shakespeare. posted by Deron Bauman in art, history, international, literature | * | 1 comment comments six more for the folio?
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The subject of the portrait is the installation artist Janet Laurence.
March 2007 2007
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If it isn't properly exposed or focused or if the portrait is actually about where it was made without including the environment, the image is a failure.
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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If it isn't properly exposed or focused or if the portrait is actually about where it was made without including the environment, the image is a failure.
Make clean images 2007
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A single Sontag portrait is the kiss of death in any matchup of personality or charisma.
Odd Couple 2004
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A single Sontag portrait is the kiss of death in any matchup of personality or charisma.
Odd Couple 2004
bilby commented on the word portrait
"I have heard a sad story about a little girl who was in the kitchen using a new toaster and asked her father: 'Do I put the slice of bread in portrait or landscape?'"
- Susan Greenfield, Virtual worlds are limiting our brains , theage.com.au, 21 Oct 2011.
October 21, 2011