- 1A painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders: a portrait of George III [as modifier]: a portrait painterMore example sentences
painting, picture, drawing, sketch, likeness, image, study, representation, portrayal, depiction, canvas; miniature, self-portrait, kit-cat portrait• informal oil• formal portraiturephotograph, photo, studio portrait, picture, shot, study, still, snap, snapshot, vignette
- His exploits were commemorated in a series of paintings, portraits and engravings.
- He made his reputation as a painter of small-scale portraits and genre scenes of contemporary city life.
- It is in these interior scenes and portraits that art historians have most often claimed to detect the use of the camera.
- 1.1A representation or impression of someone or something in language or on film or television: the writer builds up a fascinating portrait of a communityMore example sentences
- McCarthy's film is really a portrait of the risks and rewards of letting others see your vulnerable side.
- Now his estranged son has filmed a portrait of the great architect, his buildings and his haunted life.
- The film offered a portrait of a young Greek god, albeit an eccentric one, obsessed with speed, cinema and women.
- 2 [as modifier] Denoting a format of printed matter which is higher than it is wide: you can print landscape and portrait pages in the same document Compare with landscape ( sense 2 of the noun).More example sentences
- This allows you physically to swivel the screen to either landscape or portrait configuration.
- The Rotate button spins the display into a portrait format, which can be very handy when you're reading a long document.
- The seventh button toggles full-screen text input on and off, the eighth flips the display from portrait mode to landscape.
- sense 1.More example sentences
- Bernard was hugely influenced by the great portraitists - Rembrandt, Velasquez, Van Dyck, and our own Sir William Orpen.
- Like Rembrandt, his contemporaries among the Restoration portraitists favoured fanciful mythological guises.
- There is also an array of works in the show by established portraitists.
mid 16th century: from French, past participle (used as a noun) of Old French portraire 'portray'.