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 Definitions of Portrait  [ˈpɔr trɪt, -treɪt, ˈpoʊr-]  

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Definition of 'Portrait' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) portrait
a likeness of a person, esp. of the face, as a painting, drawing, sculpture, or photograph.

2.  portrait
a verbal picture or description, usu. of a person.

3. (adj.) portrait
pertaining to, designating, or producing standard vertical orientation of computer output, with lines of data parallel to the two shorter sides of a page

Etymology:  (1560–70; < MF: a drawing, image, etc.)

Definition of 'Portrait' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) portrayal, portraiture, portrait
a word picture of a person's appearance and character

2. (noun) portrait, portrayal
any likeness of a person, in any medium
"the photographer made excellent portraits"


Definition of 'Portrait' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) portrait
a painting or photograph of a person
Should I paint your portrait?

2.  portrait
self-portrait
a portrait created by the person in the picture
Picasso painted many self-portraits.

3.  portrait
a description
a portrait of poverty in rural America


Definition of 'Portrait' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Portrait
the likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life

2. (noun) Portrait
hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words

3. (verb) Portrait
to portray; to draw


Translation of 'Portrait' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a drawing, painting, photograph etc of a person
She had her portrait painted by a famous artist.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: portret Arabic flag Arabic: صورَه، لَوْحَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: портрет
Brazilian flag Brazilian: retrato Czech flag Czech: portrét German flag German: das Portrait
Danish flag Danish: portræt Greek flag Greek: προσωπογραφία, πορτρέτο Spanish flag Spanish: retrato
Estonian flag Estonian: portree Farsi flag Farsi: تصویر Finnish flag Finnish: potretti
French flag French: portrait Hebrew flag Hebrew: דְיוֹקָן Hindi flag Hindi: रूपचित्र
Croatian flag Croatian: portret Hungarian flag Hungarian: arckép Indonesian flag Indonesian: potret
Icelandic flag Icelandic: portrett Italian flag Italian: ritratto Japanese flag Japanese: 肖像画
Korean flag Korean: 초상화 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: portretas, atvaizdas Latvian flag Latvian: portrets; attēls; ģīmetne
Malay flag Malay: potret Dutch flag Dutch: portret Norwegian flag Norwegian: portrett
Polish flag Polish: portret Persian flag Persian: تصویر Pashto flag Pashto: انځور
Portuguese flag Portuguese: retrato Romanian flag Romanian: portret Russian flag Russian: портрет
Slovak flag Slovak: portrét Slovenian flag Slovenian: portret Serbian flag Serbian: portret
Swedish flag Swedish: porträtt Thai flag Thai: ภาพเหมือนบุคคล Turkish flag Turkish: portre
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 肖像 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: портрет Urdu flag Urdu: خاکہ، تصوير
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: bức chân dung Chinese flag Chinese: 肖像

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