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PORTR-ayt/ˈpɔːtreɪt/

A portrait is a picture or written description of a person: a oil portrait; a written portrait. Landscape is the scene format; photograph is any photo (photographer is already in the dictionary). Compare the portrait with the memoir. Mix-up: portray is the verb (already elsewhere).

Meaning

A painting, photograph, or description of a person.

Examples

• “Compare the portrait with the written memoir in the source booklet.”
• “The profile was a portrait of the head, which is the prose sense.”

Good to know

a painted / photographic / written portrait; sit for a portrait. Verb: portray. Art and English papers. Picture of a person, not any landscape shot.

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