Portrait

Noun

 * 1) A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
 * 2)  An accurate depiction of a mood.
 * The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.
 * 1)  a print mode or selection specifying the rectangle to be printed on having the vertical sides longer than the horizontal sides.

Related terms

 * portray

Adjectives for Portrait
undisputed; ancestral; unfavorable; satirical; penned; unequaled; poetical; gallery; posthumous;  deathlike;   faded;   dark; coarse; staring; notable; vivid; authentic; mezzotint;  sharp;   vulgar;   inimitable; somber-toned; characteristic; spirited; initial; pathetic; unlifelike; gloomy; brilliant; vigorous; distinct; demure; alluring; late realistic; whole-length; somber; painstaking; delectable;  carnationed;  rubicund: hard-favored; accurate; sympathetic; untouched.

Verbs for Portrait
admire—; adumbrate—; delineate—; detail—; display—; dress up—; embellish—; hang—; obscure—; pose for—; prepare—; shade—; shadow—; sit for—; sketch—; unveil—; —adheres to; —copies; —depicts; illustrates.

Thesaurus
Telephoto, Wirephoto, account, aerial photograph, black-and-white photograph, cameo, candid photograph, catalog, cataloging, certified copy, character, character sketch, characterization, cheesecake, chronophotograph, color photograph, color print, companion, copy, counterfeit, dead ringer, delineation, depiction, description, details, diapositive, dossier, double, duplicate, ectype, effigy, evocation, exact likeness, fair copy, faithful copy, fake, fellow, file, forgery, graphic account, head, heliochrome, heliograph, icon, idol, image, imagery, imitation, impression, itemization, likeness, limning, living image, living picture, match, mate, miniature, mirroring, model, montage, mug, mug shot, particularization, pasticcio, pastiche, phony, photo, photobiography, photochronograph, photograph, photomap, photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural, picture, picturization, pinup, portraiture, portrayal, profile, record, reflection, rendering, rendition, representation, resemblance, ringer, rubbing, semblance, shadow, shot, silhouette, similitude, simulacrum, sketch, slide, snap, snapshot, specification, spit, spit and image, spitting image, still, still photograph, story, study, telephotograph, thumbnail sketch, trace, tracing, transparency, twin, very image, very picture, vignette, vivid description, word painting

Alternative forms

 * pourtraict

Etymology
From portraict:, pourtraict:, noun use of the past participle of portraire:, from  protraho:.

Translations

 * Armenian: դիմանկար,
 * Breton:
 * Catalan: retrat
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 * Georgian: სურათი
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 * Catalan: retrat
 * Croatian:
 * Georgian: პორტრეტი
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Noun

 * Greek:  (εκτύπωσης-χαρτιού)


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Antonyms

 * (print mode or selection) landscape
 * (print mode or selection) profile

Noun

 * 1) portrait
 * 2) description (of a person or things)