Definitions for portrait

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portrait por·trait

Spelling: [pawr-trit, -treyt, pohr-]

IPA: /ˈpɔr trɪt, -treɪt, ˈpoʊr-/

Portrait is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in portrait (aioprrtt).

Definitions for portrait

noun

1. a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph:
2. a verbal picture or description, usually of a person:

adjective

1. Digital Technology. relating to or producing vertical, upright orientation of computer or other digital output, with lines of data parallel to the two shorter sides of a page or screen. Compare landscape. Compare landscape (def 8).

Origin of portrait

1560-70; Middle French: a drawing, image, etc., noun use of past participle of portraire to portray

Examples for portrait

All of which makes David Freeman's portrait of Hitchcock in his final days all the more poignant.

A portrait of him was done once in which the collar point was made to sit in its proper place.

She broods on a portrait of her mistress, happy that it cannot say “you are not mine.”

She slow-motion jogs through the courtyard, paints his portrait, and carves his name into a tree.

Some of the artists mentioned above were also portrait painters.

Where in his portrait gallery is the picture of a Drake, or even of a Raleigh?

His portrait hangs in one of the drawing-rooms of the Priory.

Then there would be jewels such as she had longed for, a portrait by Chartran, she thought.

The portrait responded not; so I sought an answer for myself.

This portrait reflects my personal experiences from childhood.