portrait
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
printing
publishing
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French portraict, pourtraict, nominal use of the past participle of portraire (“portray”), from Latin prōtrahō (< prō- + trahō).
Compare typologically English drawing.
Inflected forms:
form: portraits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pourtraict
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pourtraict
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
pos: noun
tags: countable
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.
gloss: An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
examples: 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.
gloss: A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a portrait bust; a portrait statue
Antonyms: landscape
profile
Related words: portray
trait
Derived words: autoportrait
Faiyum portrait
Fayum portrait
microportrait
miniportrait
mummy portrait
pen portrait
photo-portrait
Portraitgate
portraitist
portraitlike
portraitor
portrait painting
self-portrait
swagger portrait
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: portret
lang: Albanian
word: portret
lang: Arabic
word: صُورَة
roman: ṣūra
lang: Arabic
word: بُورْتْرِيَّة
roman: burtriyya
lang: Armenian
word: դիմանկար
roman: dimankar
lang: Armenian
word: պատկեր
roman: patker
lang: Asturian
word: retratu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: şəkil
lang: Azerbaijani
word: portret
lang: Basque
word: argazkia
lang: Belarusian
word: партрэ́т
roman: partrét
lang: Bengali
word: প্রতিকৃতি
roman: protikriti
lang: Breton
word: poltred
lang: Bulgarian
word: портре́т
roman: portrét
lang: Burmese
word: ပုံတူကား
roman: pumtuka:
lang: Catalan
word: retrat
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 肖像
roman: xiàoxiàng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 畫像 /画像
roman: huàxiàng
lang: Czech
word: portrét
lang: Czech
word: podobizna
lang: Danish
word: portræt
lang: Danish
word: kontrafej
lang: Dutch
word: portret
lang: Erzya
word: чаманеявкс
roman: čamanejavks
lang: Esperanto
word: portreto
lang: Estonian
word: portree
lang: Finnish
word: muotokuva
lang: Finnish
word: potretti
lang: French
word: portrait
lang: Galician
word: retrato
lang: Georgian
word: სურათი
roman: surati
lang: Georgian
word: პორტრეტი
roman: ṗorṭreṭi
lang: German
word: Portrait
lang: German
word: Porträt
lang: Greek
word: προσωπογραφία
roman: prosopografía
lang: Greek
word: πορτραίτο
roman: portraíto
lang: Hebrew
word: דְּיוֹקָן
roman: dyokán
lang: Hindi
word: चित्र
roman: citra
lang: Hindi
word: तस्वीर
roman: tasvīr
lang: Hungarian
word: arckép
lang: Hungarian
word: portré
lang: Hungarian
word: képmás
lang: Indonesian
word: potret
lang: Irish
word: portráid
lang: Italian
word: ritratto
lang: Japanese
word: 画像
roman: gazō
lang: Japanese
word: 肖像
roman: shōzō
lang: Kazakh
word: портрет
roman: portret
lang: Korean
word: 초상
roman: chosang
lang: Korean
word: 초상화
roman: chosanghwa
lang: Kyrgyz
word: портрет
roman: portret
lang: Latvian
word: portrets
lang: Lithuanian
word: portretas
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Portrait
lang: Macedonian
word: портре́т
roman: portrét
lang: Malay
word: potret
lang: Mongolian
word: хөрөг
roman: xörög
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: portrett
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: portrettmaleri
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: portrett
lang: Pashto
word: تصوير
roman: taswir
lang: Iranian Persian
word: تَصْویر
roman: tasvir
lang: Iranian Persian
word: پُرْتْرِه
roman: portre
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Petrett
lang: Polish
word: portret
lang: Portuguese
word: retrato
lang: Romanian
word: portret
lang: Russian
word: портре́т
roman: portrét
lang: Russian
word: парсу́на
roman: parsúna
lang: Sanskrit
word: चित्राकृति
roman: citrākṛti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: по̀ртре̄т
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pòrtrēt
lang: Slovak
word: portrét
lang: Slovene
word: portret
lang: Spanish
word: retrato
lang: Swahili
word: picha
lang: Swedish
word: porträtt
lang: Swedish
word: avbildning
lang: Tagalog
word: ritrato
lang: Tahitian
word: hohoʻa
lang: Tajik
word: портрет
roman: portret
lang: Tajik
word: тасвир
roman: tasvir
lang: Thai
word: ภาพเหมือน
roman: pâap-mʉ̌ʉan
lang: Turkish
word: portre
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: تصویر
roman: tasvir
lang: Turkmen
word: portret
lang: Ukrainian
word: портре́т
roman: portrét
lang: Urdu
word: تَصْوِیر
roman: tasvīr
lang: Urdu
word: چِتْر
roman: citr
lang: Uyghur
word: پورترېت
roman: portrët
lang: Uzbek
word: portret
lang: Vietnamese
word: chân dung
lang: Volapük
word: pöträt
lang: Yiddish
word: פּאָרטרעט
roman: portret