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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; ˈpÉ”Ëtrɪt /

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. printing (of a publication or an illustration in a publication) of greater height than width Compare landscape
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog 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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Leslie gives a complete portrait of this remarkably fecund and frequently tortured creative partnership, which began in Liverpool in 1957 and ended in New York City on Dec. 8, 1980, with Lennon’s murder.

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Trump admires not just McKinley, but he also has, apparently, a portrait of James Polk, who was responsible for the Mexican War and the annexation of large amounts of lands from Mexico.

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He said the portraits in his new book were "even more rubbish than you could have ever expected".

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In this unfiltered, unvarnished portrait of the artist, Sheff succeeds magnificently in bringing one of popular music’s most divisive and misunderstood personae to life.

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At the time, Fox captioned a pair of photos — one, a maternity portrait, and another, a black-and-white shot of a positive pregnancy test — with the sentiment, “Nothing is ever really lost. Welcome back.â€

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