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Portraitist

Definition: Portraitist

Portraitist

Noun

1. A painter or drawer of portraits.

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

Note: Portraitist \Por"trait*ist\, noun. portrait painter.. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Portraitist

Synonyms: limner (n), portrait painter (n), portrayer (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Portraitist

DomainTitle

Books

  • George Caleb Bingham River Portraitist (reference)

  • Giovanni Battista Moroni: Renaissance Portraitist (reference)

  • Maurice-Quentin de la Tour: the greatest pastel portraitist (reference)

  • Portraitist (reference)

  • The portraitist : a historical novel (reference)

    (more book examples)

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

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Usage Frequency: Portraitist

"Portraitist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Portraitist" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1687,710

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Portraitist

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

frans portraitist

30

portraitist

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Portraitist

Language Translations for "portraitist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

portretist (limner). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مصور الأشخاص. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

портретист (portrait painter). (various references)

   

Czech

  

portrétista. (various references)

   

French

  

portraitiste (portrait painter, portress). (various references)

   

German

  

porträtmaler (portrait painter). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

arcképfestõ. (various references)

   

Italian

  

ritrattista. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ortraitistpay

   

Portuguese

  

descrição (account, delimitation, description, designation, paintings, portreeve). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

portretist. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

портретист (limner, portrait painter). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

portretista. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

retratista. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

porträttmålare. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

portre ressamı. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

портретист. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

hoạ sĩ vẽ chân dung. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Portraitist

Derivations

Words beginning with "portraitist": portraitists. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Portraitist"

Words rhyming with "portraitist" (pronounced 'Por"trait*ist'): Abacist, Abaist, Abiogenist, Abolitionist, Abortionist, Absist, Abstractionist, Academist, Accompanist, Accordionist, Acephalist, Acolothist, Acolythist, Acosmist, Acquist, Actualist, Adeptist, Adiaphorist, Adonist, Adoptionist, Adventist, Aerologist, Aeroplanist, Affectationist, Agamist, Agist, Agonist, Agrammatist, Agricolist, Agriculturalist, Agriculturist, Agriologist, Agronomist, Agrostologist, Aladinist, Alarmist, Alchemist, Alcoranist, Algebraist, Algologist, Alienist, Alkoranist, Allegorist, Allodialist, Allopathist, Alopecist, Alpinist, Altarist, Altruist, Ambitionist. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Portraitist

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-i-o-p-r-r-s-t-t-t"

-2 letters: parotitis, portraits, titrators.

-3 letters: airports, airstrip, patriots, portrait, sartorii, titrator, traitors.

-4 letters: airport, airpost, parrots, patriot, protist, raptors, traitor, tripart.

-5 letters: aorist, ariosi, aristo, artist, otitis, ottars, parrot, pastor, patios, patois, priors, prosit, rapist, raptor, ratios, ripost, rostra, sartor, satori, spirit, stator, strait, strati, stript, tapirs, tarots, traits, tripos.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-i-o-p-r-r-s-t-t-t"
 

+1 letter: portraitists.

 

+4 letters: interpretations, prestidigitator.

 

+5 letters: prestidigitators, transcriptionist, transportability.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Portraitist


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6F 72 74 72 61 69 74 69 73 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01110010 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101001 01110100 01101001 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0072 0074 0072 0061 0069 0074 0069 0073 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5081848684677586758586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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