Portrait

Definition: Portrait

Portrait

Noun

1. A painting of a person's face.

2. A word picture of a person's appearance and character.

3. Any likeness of a person; "the photographer made excellent portraits".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "portrait" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Computing

Dream Interpretation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Portrait

Artist

Historical painter, landscape painter, marine painter, flower painter, portrait painter, miniature painter, miniaturist, scene painter, sign painter, coach painter; engraver; Apelles; sculptor, carver, chaser, modeler, figuriste, statuary; Phidias, Praxiteles; Royal Academician.

Copy

Image, picture, photo, xerox, similitude, semblance, ectype, photo offset, electrotype; imitation; model, representation, adumbration, study; portrait; (representation); resemblance.

Painting

Portrait; (representation); whole length, full length, half length; kitcat, head; miniature; shade, silhouette; profile.

Historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting; landscape painting, marine painting; still life, flower painting, scene painting; scenography.

Representation

Image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness; very image; effigy, facsimile.

Crosswords: Portrait

French (character sketch, likeness, picture, portrait, portrayal), German (portrait).

Meet Joe McCursky -- portrait of a man with a dilemma (The Last Episode; writing credit: David Giammarco; Jeff Cowan)

It's a self portrait. (The Rebel; writing credit: Ray Galton; Tony Hancock)

It was a portrait Normal Rockwell forgot to paint: someone's mother home again ^Å in oils (Without You I'm Nothing; writing credit: Sandra Bernhard; John Boskovich)

I can't imagine Ann painted a very flattering portrait of me. (Sex, Lies, and Videotape; writing credit: Steven Soderbergh)

In our family portrait (Family Portrait; performing artist: Pink)

From a portrait hung on high (Before You Walk Out My Life; performing artist: Monica)

Portrait de Bruno Bettelheim (1974)

Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (1974)

Portrait d'un auto-portrait (1974)

Baobab: Portrait of a Tree (1973)

Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis (1973)

Family Portrait (performing artist: Pink)

Portrait Of My Love (performing artist: Steve Lawrence)

Portrait of My Love (performing artist: The Tokens)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The 2001 Report on Photographic Portrait Studios: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Photographic Portrait Studios: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

• The 2000-2005 Outlook for Photographic Portrait Studios in Asia (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Lighting and Exposure Techniques for Outdoor and Location Portrait Photography (reference)

• Outdoor and Location Portrait Photography (reference)

• Mademoiselle Libertine; a portrait of Ninon de Lanclos (reference)

• Portrait of the Regions: Austria, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland (reference)

• Posing and Lighting Techniques for Studio Portrait Photography (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Portrait of Jennie (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Out Of This World; A Chanticleer Portrait (reference)

• Portrait (reference)

• Billie Holiday: Portrait (reference)

• Django Reinhardt: Portrait (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• TIFFEN 62HFXGK1 62MM Wedding & Portrait Kit (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Portrait. Credit: Branson, Bill (photographer).

Shows portrait photo of Dr. Carl Gwin Baker, National Cancer Institute director from July 1970 to May 1972. The orginal piece of art hangs in the 11th floor hallway in Building 31 on the National Institutes of Health campus. Credit: Brooks (Photographer).

STS-26 Crew Portrait. Credit: NASA.

Portrait of T. Keith Glennan. Credit: NASA.

The Hubble telescope has taken a "family portrait" of young, ultra-bright stars nested in ... Credit: NASA.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a panoramic portrait of a vast, sculpted landscape ... Credit: NASA.

NASA diagram of how the frames for the Solar System Family Portrait were taken. Credit: NASA.

All of the frames from the family portrait. Credit: NASA.

"The Fotographer, himself" Portrait of George E. Marsh Triangulation party of Wilbur Porter. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Bob Pryce - self portrait while in a helicopter Mr. Pryce served for over thirty years on geodetic field parties. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She had soon fixed on the size and sort of portrait.

He looked at this portrait incessantly

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

A specific protocol portrait followup should be developed by each screening program. (references)

Human Rights

Zimbabwe

During the year, business managers of urban NGO's and private companies were abducted and taken to ZANU-PF headquarters, where some were beaten and threatened, and others were forced to kiss a portrait of President Mugabe and sing ruling party slogans. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

They should stop for a presidential motorcade, stand for the national anthem, and under no circumstances destroy or deface a portrait of the President. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "portrait": a Portrait of J. Random Hacker ♦ Composite portrait ♦ full length portrait ♦ full portrait ♦ have one's portrait taken ♦ photograph or portrait ♦ photographic portrait ♦ portrait bust ♦ portrait camera ♦ portrait in miniature ♦ portrait lens ♦ portrait painter ♦ portrait photo ♦ portrait statue ♦ sit for one's portrait. Additional references.

Beginning with "portrait": portrait-busts, portrait-gallery, portrait-head, portrait-hung, portrait-like, portrait-mode, portrait-necked, portrait-painting, portrait-photograph, portrait-sculpture, portrait-sized.

Ending with "portrait": pen-portrait, self-portrait, sound-portrait.

Afrikaans

beeltenis (image, picture). (various references)

Albanian

portretizim (portraiture, portrayal), portret (effigy, icon, ikon, portrayal), përshkrim (commentary, delineation, depiction, description, portraiture, presentment, profile, recital, write up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لوحة (doorplate, drawing, nameplate, painting, panel, picture, plaque, plate, tablet), ‏صورة فنية للوجه, ‏صورة (configuration, effigy, feature, form, gestalt, idol, image, photograph, picture, portraiture, portrayal, print, representation, reproduction, resemblance, shot, tableau, take). (various references)

Basque

erretratu. (various references)

Bulgarian 

портретен (iconic), портрет (effigy, figure work, likeness, picture, portraiture), подобие (analogue, analogy, effigy, likeness, parity, propinquity, replica, semblance, shadow, similarity, similitude, simulacrum), изображение (depiction, description, effigy, image, picture, representation, simulacrum). (various references)

Chinese 

肖像 , 畫像 (portray), 相 (appearance, each other, mutually, one another, picture), 画像, 像 (appearance, elephant, image, like, look, resemble, seem, similar, to appear, to look, to seem). (various references)

Czech

portrét (portrayal), podobizna (effigy). (various references)

Danish

billede (image, painting, picture). (various references)

Dutch

portret, beeltenis, evenbeeld. (various references)

Esperanto

portreto, similaĵo (image, picture). (various references)

Faeroese

andlitsmynd. (various references)

Farsi 

نقاشی (Skip), تصویرکردن (Figure), تصویر (Form, Hue, Image, Likeness, Picture, Scenography, Vignette), عکس یاتصویرصورت . (various references)

Finnish

muotokuva (likeness). (various references)

French

portrait (portrayal). (various references)

German

Porträt (likeness, portraiture, portrayal, profile), Portrait, Bildnis (effigy, image, likeness), Bild (character, drawing, figure, frame, illustration, image, metaphor, painting, photo, photograph, picture, picture card, reflection, scene, sight, tableau, vista). (various references)

Greek 

πορτρέτο (profile). (various references)

Hebrew 

פורטרט, דיוקן (image, likeness, profile). (various references)

Hungarian

portré (portraiture), képmás (double, effigy, image, likeness, wraith), arckép (likeness, portraiture, portrayal). (various references)

Indonesian

potret (photo). (various references)

Italian

ritratto (likeness, picture, portraiture), formato verticale (mugshot, portrait size, tall format, upright format, upright size), formato ritratto (mugshot, tall format, upright format), effigie (effigy). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

肖像画, 肖像. (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぞう (bowels, elephant, figure, image, picture, statue, viscera), すがたえ, がぞう (image, picture), しょうぞうが, しょうぞう, しょうえい (doxology, operated by the government, Shoei, Shouei), しんえい (freshly picked, monarch's guards, newly produced), そんえい, にがおえ (likeness), にがお (likeness), せいえい (efficient, elite, picked, powerful, your health and prosperity), えぞう, えすがた. (various references)

Korean 

초상. (various references)

Manx

cochaslys (image, picture, portraiture). (various references)

Occitan

retrach. (various references)

Papiamen

potrèt, portrèt. (various references)

Pig Latin

ortraitpay.(various references)

Portuguese

retrato (double, image, likeness, photo, picture, portraiture, portrayal, representation, resemblance, semblance, still). (various references)

Romanian

pozã (photo, photog, photograph, picture, pose, standing), portret (icon, likeness, picture, portraiture, resemblance), imagine (frame, icon, idea, idol, image, likeness, picture, representation, shape). (various references)

Russian 

вертикальный (erect, perpendicular, sine oriented, sine-oriented, upright, upstanding, vertical). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

portretski, portret. (various references)

Spanish

retrato (diagram, effigy, figure, image, likeness, picture, portraiture, portrayal, profile, representation). (various references)

Swedish

porträtt (cameo, likeness, picture). (various references)

Turkish

portre, vesikalık fotoğraf (mug shot), tasvir (depiction, description, pen-portrait, picture, portraiture, portrayal, version), betimleme (description, figuration, pen-portrait, portraiture, portrayal). (various references)

Turkmen 

portret (r). (various references)

Ukrainian

образ (character, depiction, eidolon, exemplar, image, imago, similitude, vision), зображення (depiction, description, effigy, icon, ikon, image, impersonation, picture, portraiture, portrayal, prefiguration, presentment, reflex, representation, resemblance, simulacrum, video), портрет (depiction, likeness, portraiture). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chân dung, ảnh hình tượng, điển hình sự miêu tả sinh động. (various references)

Welsh

arlun (drawing, painting). (various references)

eikon. (various references)

effigie, effigiem. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "portrait": portraitist, portraitists, portraits, portraiture, portraitures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Portrait" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: poitrait, Porrit, portait, Porthau, Porthault, Porthreath, portlait, portra, portrair, portrat, portratt, portriat, potrait, pourrais, poytrait, protra, protrait. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: airport, patriot, traitor, tripart.

-2 letters: parrot, raptor.

-3 letters: aport, atrip, ottar, patio, prior, ratio, tapir, tarot, trait, trapt.

-4 letters: airt, atop, iota, orra, pair, parr, part, pita, port, prao, prat, proa, rapt, rato, riot, roar, rota, roti, taro, tarp, tart, tiro, toit, topi, tora, tori, torr, tort, trap, trio, trip, trop, trot.

-5 letters: air, ait.

+1 letter: portraits.

+2 letters: extirpator.

+3 letters: corporatist, extirpators, partitioner, parturition, portraitist, portraiture, proletariat, propitiator, prostrating, prostration, protractile, protracting, protraction, protractive, repartition, tetrasporic, triceratops, vituperator.

+4 letters: antipredator, interpolator, participator, partitioners, parturitions, perpetration, perturbation, portraitists, portraitures, practitioner, precipitator, premeditator, proletariats, propitiators, propitiatory, prostrations, protractions, repartitions, repatriation, superpatriot, transporting, trichopteran, vituperators, vituperatory.

+5 letters: anticorporate, antipredators, arthropathies, containerport, interpellator, interpolators, intertropical, participators, participatory, perpetrations, perturbations, practitioners, precipitators, predestinator, preformatting, premeditators, procrastinate, proportionate, protonotaries, reexportation, reimportation, repartitioned, repatriations, stratospheric, superpatriots, transcription, transpiration, triceratopses, trichopterans.