Definitions for Portia

Portia Por·tia

Spelling: [pawr-shuh, -shee-uh, pohr-]
IPA: /ˈpɔr ʃə, -ʃi ə, ˈpoʊr-/

Portia is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in Portia (aioprt).

Definitions for Portia

noun

  1. the heroine of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, who, in one scene, disguises herself as a lawyer.
  2. a woman lawyer.
  3. a female given name.

Examples for Portia

Put the caskets before me, Portia; I shall not be less wise than Bassanio.

How like Portia in the trial scene of the Merchant of Venice.

Could one reason behind the lack of excitement be that one of its main stars, Portia de Rossi, is practically unrecognizable?

Westminster is the Ellen DeGeneres to Fashion Week's Portia de Rossi, the Melissa Ethridge to its Elton John.

Portia, still in disguise, asks as her fee a ring that she has given to Bassanio.

This selection is part of Portia's reply to Shylock's question.

Not for all the ducats in Belmont will I call Portia a learned judge again.

Portia has been much praised during two centuries of criticism.

Cyrus drives home the conscience of indebtedness la Portia v. Shylock.

"I mean it," he said, and he quoted the lines about Portia's sunny locks.

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