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Definition: Portrayal |
PortrayalNoun1. A word picture of a person's appearance and character. 2. Acting the part of a character on stage. 3. A representation by picture or portraiture. 4. Any likeness of a person; "the photographer made excellent portraits". 5. Representation by drawing or painting etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "portrayal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
Synonyms: PortrayalSynonyms: delineation (n), depicting (n), depiction (n), enactment (n), portrait (n), portraiture (n), portraying (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Portrayal |
| English words defined with "portrayal": character ♦ Dos Passos ♦ glorification ♦ idealisation, idealization, impression ♦ John Dos Passos ♦ literalism ♦ part, persona ♦ realistic, role ♦ theatrical role. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "portrayal": break even chart ♦ ENGRAVER, PICTURE ♦ flight profile. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I just want to thank the student who drew the crude caricature of me in the boys' lavatory, Although you were kind in your portrayal, I would like it if you kept your talents to the art class. (Cutting Class; writing credit: Steve Slavkin) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Voltaire | History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | A full listing of Danish defense companies is published by the Confederation of Danish Industries and gives an accurate portrayal of each company, its activities and products, customers, facility information and quality assurance. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Brunei | The Prime Minister's Office described Hatta's portrayal of Brunei as "irresponsible, untrue, inaccurate, misleading, and embarrassing." Hatta was reelected as PPKB president in October, and the Party has pledged to support government policies. (references) |
Slovak Republic | The book has been criticized widely by religious groups and the Slovak Academy of Sciences for gross inaccuracies and distortions, particularly in its portrayal of wartime Slovakia and the deportation of Jews and Roma. (references) | |
Turkmenistan | Following remarks by President Niyazov on September 2000, in which he criticized an elementary school history textbook for its portrayal of Turkmen history, all copies of the book were recalled from schools and most were destroyed. (references) | |
Minorities | Russia | However, traditionally anti-Semitic publications with large distributions, such as the newspaper Zavtra, while still pursuing such anti-Semitic themes as the portrayal of Russian oligarchs as exclusively Jewish, appeared to be more careful than in the past about using crude anti-Semitic language. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Portrayal" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Portrayal" is used about 273 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) | 100% | 273 | 17,765 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "portrayal": power of portrayal characters. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "portrayal": character-portrayal, self-portrayal. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
adam portrayal sandler | 9 |
downey portrayal roma | 7 |
portrayal press | 4 |
in media portrayal woman | 4 |
portrayal teenager television | 3 |
history portrayal teenager television | 3 |
media portrayal woman | 2 |
damn portrayal yankee | 2 |
film in portrayal woman | 2 |
portrayal | 2 |
crime in portrayal sex womans | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "portrayal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | portretizim (portrait, portraiture), portret (effigy, icon, ikon, portrait), paraqitje (adduction, demonstration, designation, display, face, figure, guise, introduction, likeness, make, manifestation, preferment, presence, presentation, production, profile, recommendation, representation, showing, smartness, statement, submission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تصوير (depiction, description, drawing, figuration, illustration, makings, photograph, photography, picturing, representation, reproduction), صورة (configuration, effigy, feature, form, gestalt, idol, image, photograph, picture, portrait, portraiture, print, representation, reproduction, resemblance, shot, tableau, take), رسم (block, charge, daub, depict, depiction, describe, description, design, draft, draught, draw, drawing, etch, etching, exhibit, figure to oneself, formalize, image, impost, lay, lay out, limn, line, mark out, pattern, pencil, picture, plotter, portray, protract, scrawl, sketch, tableau, trace, trace over, weave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | рисуване (depiction, draughtsmanship, drawing, painting), обрисуване (delineation, depiction), описание (account, delineation, depiction, description, narration, narrative, portraiture), изобразяване (depiction, representation), изпълнение на роля (impersonation, personation, presentment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 人物描寫 , 写照. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | portrét (portrait), zobrazení (display, representation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | ret til et portræt (right of personal portrayal), ensartet målestandard og afbildning af interferens (uniform standard of measurement and portrayal of interference). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | uniforme norm voor metingen en grafische prestaties van de interferenties (uniform standard of measurement and portrayal of interference), recht op een afbeelding (right of personal portrayal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مجسم سازی , نمایش (Appearance, Display, Drama, Exhibition, Exposure, Histrionics, Ostentation, Parade, Performance, Play, Presentation, Representation, Show, Showing, Spectacle), تعریف (Compliment, Definition, Description, Explanation, Quality, Quantification), تجسم (Incarnation, Projection, Shape). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | yhdenmukainen häiriöiden mittaus-ja esitysstandardi (uniform standard of measurement and portrayal of interference). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | portrait (portrait), peinture, représentation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | porträt (likeness, portrait, portraiture, profile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ζωγράφηση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תאור (account, depiction, description, narration, outline, representation, sketch), ציור (design, drawing, figure, painting, picture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ábrázolás (delineation, depiction, imagery, presentment, rendition, representation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | norma unificata per la misura e la rappresentazione grafica delle in terferenze (uniform standard of measurement and portrayal of interference), diritto all'immagine (right of personal portrayal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 描写 (depiction, description), 写" (description, drawing from nature, sketching). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しゃせい (company manufactured, description, drawing from nature, ejaculation, sketching), びょうしゃ (depiction, description, hospital, infirmary, ward). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 묘사 (Delineating, Delineation, Depicting, Depiction, Description). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tuarystal (appearance, likeness, model, picture, resemblance, shape, similitude, simulacrum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ortrayalpay pintura (make up, paint, painting, picture, portrait), pintar (brush, coat, color, colour, dapple, depict, depicture, dope fiend, fleck, limn, paint, picture, represent), retrato (double, image, likeness, photo, picture, portrait, portray, representation, resemblance, semblance, still), representação (acting, description, impersonator, personification, preservation, remonstrance, rendering, representation). (various references) portretizare, zugrãvire (delineation, portraiture), descriere (delineation, depiction, description, portraiture, presentment, relation, representation, sketch). (various references) рисование (drawing). (various references) slikanje (painting), opis (description, periphrasis, write up). (various references) retrato (diagram, effigy, figure, image, likeness, picture, portrait, portraiture, profile, representation). (various references) porträttering. (various references) tasvir (depiction, description, pen-portrait, picture, portrait, portraiture, version), tanımlama (characterization, collation, definition, description, explanation, portraiture, specification), betimleme (description, figuration, pen-portrait, portrait, portraiture). (various references) малювання, зображення (depiction, description, effigy, icon, ikon, image, impersonation, picture, portrait, portraiture, prefiguration, presentment, reflex, representation, resemblance, simulacrum, video). (various references) sự vẽ chân dung, bức chân dung sự miêu tả. (various references) portread (depiction, pattern), darluniad (description). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "portrayal": portrayals. (additional references) | |
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"Portrayal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: portrayl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "portrayal" (pronounced pôrtrā"ul) |
| 5 | -t r ā" u l | betrayal. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-l-o-p-r-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: parroty, portray. | |
-3 letters: aortal, paltry, parlay, parlor, parral, parrot, partly, patrol, payola, portal, portly, protyl, pyrola, pyrrol, raptly, raptor, rotary, tapalo. | |
-4 letters: alary, altar, aorta, apart, aport, aptly, array, artal, atopy, lorry, lyart, parol, parry, party, patly, payor, platy, playa, polar, ratal, royal, talar, tarry, tolar, typal. | |
-5 letters: alar, alto, arty, aryl, atap, atop. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-l-o-p-r-r-t-y" | |
+1 letter: portrayals. | |
+4 letters: appropriately, hyperrational, paranormality, perambulatory, preparatorily. | |
+5 letters: protoplanetary. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 72 74 72 61 79 61 6C |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- .-. - .-. .- -.--. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110010 01110100 01110010 01100001 01111001 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o r t r a y a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0072 0074 0072 0061 0079 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508184868467916778 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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