What does portrayal mean?
Definitions for portrayal
pɔrˈtreɪ əl, poʊr-por·tray·al
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Princeton's WordNet
portrayal, portraiture, portraitnoun
a word picture of a person's appearance and character
portrayal, characterization, enactment, personationnoun
acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture
depicting, depiction, portraying, portrayalnoun
a representation by picture or portraiture
portrait, portrayalnoun
any likeness of a person, in any medium
"the photographer made excellent portraits"
depiction, delineation, portrayalnoun
representation by drawing or painting etc
Wiktionary
portrayalnoun
The act of portraying.
portrayalnoun
The result of portraying; a representation, description, or portrait.
Webster Dictionary
Portrayalnoun
the act or process of portraying; description; delineation
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of portrayal in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of portrayal in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of portrayal in a Sentence
Just as Native American activists have demanded the removal ofChristopher Columbus statuesand pushed to transform the Columbus holiday into an acknowledgment of hisbrutality toward Indigenous people, Native American activists have long objected to the popular portrayal of Thanksgiving.
I think Edward Snowden has been terribly destructive, he has been less than forthcoming. It was a very slanted portrayal about what the NSA does, and he knows it.
The collective portrayal of the immigrant experience is what's compelling, not just one individual story.
There's a fluidity to Donald Glover and Billy Dee's( portrayal of Lando's) sexuality, i mean, I would have loved to have gotten a more explicitly LGBT character into this movie. I think it's time, certainly, for that, and I love the fluidity -- sort of the spectrum of sexuality that Donald Glover appeals to and that droids are a part of.
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.
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