Portrait - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- any likeness of a person, in any medium (syn: portrayal)
Extra examples
The queen posed for her portrait.
The book presents a portrait of life in a small town.
She's been commissioned to paint Jackson's portrait.
A portrait of the queen was commissioned.
The king commissioned the artist to paint his portrait.
...the beginning part of the book is a portrait of Europe on the eve of the World War I...
He painted that portrait of his wife.
...a portrait of a mother and child that is regarded as the very manifestation of maternal love...
...a Renaissance portrait of a noble woman of Florence wearing a bejeweled coronal...
...the eyes of the lifelike portrait seem to follow visitors around the room...
...police asked psychiatrists to put together a portrait of the moonstruck marksman who was responsible for the shootings...
...Rembrandt's genius was his unparalleled ability to render a person's quiddity in a single portrait....
He finished the portrait in one sitting.
The movie is a somber portrait of life on the streets.
...the portrait painter's muse for the goddess of love was apparently a common strumpet...
Word forms
singular: portrait
plural: portraits
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