Meaning of portrait | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
   countable
2. A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders
3. An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
   countable, figuratively
4. An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc
5. A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.
   countable, uncountable
6. A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides
7. To portray; to draw
8. Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal

Equivalents

Examples

“In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.”

“The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.”

“She showed me her portrait, written by herself. I only remember what she states of her mouth, which, she says, was not only beautiful and red, but had a thousand little natural airs and graces not to be found in any other mouth. Oh, I must not forget her figure, which, she assured the reader, was the best-made and the finest that could be seen: nothing could be more regular, more graceful, or more easy.”

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