Portraiture

Definition: Portraiture

Portraiture

Noun

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

2. The activity of making portraits.

Date "portraiture" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Portraiture

Synonyms: portrait (n), portrayal (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Painting	School, style; the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture; ornamental art.
Representation	Noun: representation, representment; imitation; illustration, delineation, depictment; imagery, portraiture, iconography; design, designing; art, fine arts; painting; sculpture; engraving; photography, cinematography; radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Portraiture

English words defined with "portraiture": depicting, depiction ♦ Iconography, Iconology ♦ portrayal, portraying. (references)

Specialty definitions using "portraiture": Icon Basilike ♦ STAINED GLASS ARTIST. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Natural Colour Portraiture (1909)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Changing Perceptions: Milestones in Twentieth-Century British Portraiture (reference) Concept to Print: Advanced Techniques in Creative Portraiture (reference) Portraiture (Essays in Art and Culture) (reference) Portraiture in Russia: XX Century (reference) Professional Portraiture (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Surrealistic Portraiture (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Portraiture of the vaines which chyrurgions doe comonly open. : [Vein man]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"Portraiture" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.70% of the time. "Portraiture" is used about 129 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	90.7%	117	29,823
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	5.43%	7	133,076
Lexical Verb (base form)	2.33%	3	202,518
Noun (proper)	1.55%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	129	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "portraiture": self-portraiture.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

Language		Translations for "portraiture"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		portretizim (portrait, portrayal), portrete, përshkrim (commentary, delineation, depiction, description, portrait, presentment, profile, recital, write up), bërje portretesh. (various references)

Arabic		‏فن التصوير, ‏صورة (configuration, effigy, feature, form, gestalt, idol, image, photograph, picture, portrait, portrayal, print, representation, reproduction, resemblance, shot, tableau, take). (various references)

Bulgarian		обрисовка (depiction, presentment), описание (account, delineation, depiction, description, narration, narrative, portrayal), портретна живопис, портрет (effigy, figure work, likeness, picture, portrait). (various references)

Czech		portrétování. (various references)

French		art de portrait. (various references)

German		Porträtphotographie. (various references)

Greek		απεικόνιση (depiction, portrayal, representation, typification). (various references)

Hebrew		אמ� ות �"ציור (painting), �"יוק� אות. (various references)

Hungarian		arcképfestés. (various references)

Italian		ritratto (likeness, picture, portrait), ritrattistica. (various references)

Manx		coontey (compute, count, description, list, number, score). (various references)

Pig Latin		ortraiturepay

Portuguese		retratista. (various references)

Romanian		portretisticã, portret (icon, likeness, picture, portrait, resemblance), zugrãvire (delineation, portrayal), descriere (delineation, depiction, description, portrayal, presentment, relation, representation, sketch). (various references)

Russian		описание (account, declaration, definition, depiction, description, exposition, manuals, portrait, scripting, specification, specification statement, write up), портрет (effigy, likeness, picture). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		portretisanje. (various references)

Spanish		retrato (diagram, effigy, figure, image, likeness, picture, portrait, portrayal, profile, representation), descripción (account, content, depiction, description, documentation, epithet, essay, explanation, label, painting, portrayal). (various references)

Swedish		porträttmålning. (various references)

Turkish		portre ressamlığı, tasvir (depiction, description, pen-portrait, picture, portrait, portrayal, version), tanımlama (characterization, collation, definition, description, explanation, portrayal, specification), betimleme (description, figuration, pen-portrait, portrait, portrayal). (various references)

Ukrainian		зображення (depiction, description, effigy, icon, ikon, image, impersonation, picture, portrait, portrayal, prefiguration, presentment, reflex, representation, resemblance, simulacrum, video), портретний живопис, портрет (depiction, likeness, portrait). (various references)

Vietnamese		cách vẽ chân dung tập chân dung sự miêu tả sinh động. (various references)

Welsh		arluniaeth (painting). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "portraiture": portraitures. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Portraiture" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pourriture. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-o-p-r-r-r-t-t-u"
	-3 letters: parroter, portrait, priorate, roturier, torturer, troutier.
	-4 letters: airport, outrate, partier, partite, patriot, pierrot, pottier, poutier, praetor, preriot, prorate, puttier, rapture, rattier, roupier, ruttier, tarrier, torture, traitor, tripart, trouper.
	-5 letters: artier, attire, irater, irrupt, opiate, ourari, outate, outeat, parrot, parure, patter, pattie, pirate, porter, potter, pourer, pouter, prater, pretor, protea, protei, prutot, putter, rapier.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-o-p-r-r-r-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: portraitures.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6F 72 74 72 61 69 74 75 72 65

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 01110101 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0072 0074 0072 0061 0069 0074 0075 0072 0065

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

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

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
portraiture	61	artistic portraiture	4
photography portraiture	9	history portraiture	4
creative portraiture	8	enchanted portraiture	3
child portraiture	7	corporate portraiture	3
child family portraiture	7	bridal portraiture	3
high portraiture school senior	6	family portraiture	3
portraiture senior	6	in portraiture qualitative research	2
portraiture specialist	4	civil portraiture war	2
available light portraiture	4	executive portraiture	2
fine portraiture	4	photo portraiture	2
		pet portraiture	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Portraiture

Definition: Portraiture

Portraiture

Noun

Synonyms: Portraiture

Synonyms within Context: Portraiture

Painting

Representation

Crosswords: Portraiture

Modern Usage: Portraiture

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Portraiture

Books

Music

Photo Album: Portraiture

Usage Frequency: Portraiture

Expression: Portraiture

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Portraiture

Modern Translation: Portraiture

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Derivations & Misspellings: Portraiture

Derivations

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Anagrams: Portraiture

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Portraiture

50 6F 72 74 72 61 69 74 75 72 65

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01010000 01101111 01110010 01110100 01110010 01100001 01101001 01110100 01110101 01110010 01100101

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0050 006F 0072 0074 0072 0061 0069 0074 0075 0072 0065

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