portrait
250
3.2
- noun
- /ˈpɔrtrɪt/
:
retrato
- Let's take a look at her husband's portrait by Robert McCurdy.
- paint a portrait
- commission a portrait
- portrait painter
First there was this portrait that became known as Monkey Christ.
- First there was this portrait that became known as Monkey Christ.
- Photographs of the family, double portraits, interior scenes.
- I, I may or may not have gotten a portrait of myself hand drawn.
- Maybe I give one example to think about visual information like portraits, paintings, photographs.
- Some of our seminar rooms have male portraits exclusively.
- Let's take a look at her husband's portrait by Robert McCurdy.
- This is Thomas Hochner, and this is the famous portrait he did of Muhammad Ali.
- It was a mustache themed bar where in the back there's a giant portrait of Burt Reynolds.
- This, he wrote a few years later, was obviously a Caesar portrait taken from life.
- But he built this beautiful portrait of me.
- So Newman's last portrait was of Greg, and the two were very close.
Examples
-
Over here, we have several family portraits painted by the Dutch master Van Dyck.
-
These little shelves house my portraits of my beloved cats.
-
This one she describes as a portrait of her family.
-
So what does the resulting face portrait look like?
-
Hey, what happened to the family portrait?
-
Such was the case with this round portrait of a man in armour.
-
First there was this portrait that became known as Monkey Christ.
-
I'd like you to sit for a portrait.
-
Look at the portrait.
-
The museum displayed a stunning portrait of a young woman in a flowing dress.
Synonyms
30
4.0
A picture or other image that shows what something looked like
27
4.1
A picture or statue made to show how a person looked
3
4.0
A picture or statue that shows what a person looks like
1
4.3
A picture that shows something, like a scene or object
An image like a photo that shows a person, place, or thing
Compounds
- Specialized
1
5.4
A camera part with a wide opening that blurs backgrounds for photos of people
How Lifelike
Surface Forms
Etymology
Portrait comes from an old French verb that meant 'to draw out' and has the root trahere meaning 'to pull', the same root as tractor and attract. So a portrait is something that 'draws out' a person's face or presence, which is why it means a painted or photographed likeness.