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Definition: Self-portrait |
Self-portraitNoun1. A portrait of yourself created by yourself. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "self-portrait" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Clever | Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Self-Portrait (1973) Rembrandt: A Self-Portrait (1954) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Photographer takes self-portrait in South Pole marker Atmosheric phenomena provide halo for observer. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Thomas Alexander Harrison Self-portrait when an old man With C&GS from 1874-1878. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Self-portrait. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Self-Portrait at night II / Peri Schwartz '85. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Self-portrait. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rembrandt, half-length self-portrait. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Samuel Finley Breese Morse, head and shoulders self-portrait. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Gilbert Stuart, self-portrait, half-length, right profile, holding pencil or brush, drawing. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Frances Benjamin Johnston (right), full-length self-portrait dressed as a man with false moustache, posed with two unidentified women, one of whom is also dressed as a man. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Clipping from an article on Arnold Genthe, including a self-portrait of Arnold Genthe. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Self-portrait of pepepue" by Pepepue Commentary: "Self-portrait of pepepue in the 'salero' Barcelona ." | "Self-portrait" by Simon S. Commentary: "Early self portrait in elba, italy." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Self-portrait" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.21% of the time. "Self-portrait" is used about 78 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) | 78.21% | 61 | 43,149 |
| Noun (proper) | 21.79% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 78 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "self-portrait"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | autoportret. (various references) | |
Arabic | الصورة الذاتية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | автопортрет. (various references) | |
Chinese | 自画像. (various references) | |
Czech | autoportrét. (various references) | |
Finnish | omakuva. (various references) | |
French | autoportrait. (various references) | |
German | selbstporträt (self portrait), selbstbildnis. (various references) | |
Greek | αυτοπορτρέτο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | önarckép. (various references) | |
Italian | autoritratto. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 自画 (picture painted by oneself). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | じが (picture painted by oneself, self, the ego). (various references) | |
Korean | 자화상. (various references) | |
Manx | hene-chaslys. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elf-portraitsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | auto-retrato. (various references) | |
Romanian | autoportret (autoportrait). (various references) | |
Russian | автопортрет. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | autoportret. (various references) | |
Spanish | autorretrato. (various references) | |
Swedish | självporträtt. (various references) | |
Turkish | ressamın kendi portresi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | автопортрет. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bức tự hoạ bài tự tả, bức chân dung tự vẽ. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Self-portrait" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: selfportrait. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-l-o-p-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: literators. | |
-3 letters: filtrates, firetraps, floatiest, foreparts, forestial, literator, paltriest, portliest, portraits, posttrial, prattlers, pretrials, priorates, profilers, profiters, prostrate, retailors, retrofits, saprolite. | |
-4 letters: airports, falsetto, filtrate, firepots, firetrap, flatters, flattops, fleapits, flirters, flitters, floaters, floatier, foliates, forepart, forepast, foresail, forestal, frailest, fritters, frostier, loftiest, paletots, paltrier, partiers, partlets, patriots, pelorias, petiolar, petrosal, pieforts, pierrots. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Images: Slideshow | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Images: Digital Art 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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