portrait

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: por=trait

CIDE DICTIONARY

portrait, n. [F., originally p. p. of portraire to portray. See Portray.].

•  The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.  [1913 Webster]

  " The meaning of the word is sometimes extended so as to include a photographic likeness."  [1913 Webster]

  "In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature."  [1913 Webster]
•  Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words.  [1913 Webster]

Portrait bust, or Portrait statue, a bust or statue representing the actual features or person of an individual; -- in distinction from an ideal bust or statue.

portrait, v. t. 

 To portray; to draw.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

portrait, n.
1 a representation of a person or animal, esp. of the face, made by drawing, painting, photography, etc.
2 a verbal picture; a graphic description.
3 a person etc. resembling or typifying another (is the portrait of his father).
4 (in graphic design etc.) a format in which the height of an illustration etc. is greater than the width (cf. LANDSCAPE).

Etymology

F, past part. of OF portraire PORTRAY

THESAURUS

portrait

Telephoto, Wirephoto, account, aerial photograph, black-and-white photograph, cameo, candid photograph, catalog, cataloging, certified copy, character, character sketch, characterization, cheesecake, chronophotograph, color photograph, color print, companion, copy, counterfeit, dead ringer, delineation, depiction, description, details, diapositive, dossier, double, duplicate, ectype, effigy, evocation, exact likeness, fair copy, faithful copy, fake, fellow, file, forgery, graphic account, head, heliochrome, heliograph, icon, idol, image, imagery, imitation, impression, itemization, likeness, limning, living image, living picture, match, mate, miniature, mirroring, model, montage, mug, mug shot, particularization, pasticcio, pastiche, phony, photo, photobiography, photochronograph, photograph, photomap, photomicrograph, photomontage, photomural, picture, picturization, pinup, portraiture, portrayal, profile, record, reflection, rendering, rendition, representation, resemblance, ringer, rubbing, semblance, shadow, shot, silhouette, similitude, simulacrum, sketch, slide, snap, snapshot, specification, spit, spit and image, spitting image, still, still photograph, story, study, telephotograph, thumbnail sketch, trace, tracing, transparency, twin, very image, very picture, vignette, vivid description, word painting

ROGET THESAURUS

portrait

Copy

N copy, facsimile, counterpart, effigies, effigy, form, likeness, image, picture, photo, xerox, similitude, semblance, ectype, photo offset, electrotype, imitation, model, representation, adumbration, study, portrait, resemblance, duplicate, reproduction, cast, tracing, reflex, reflexion, reflection, shadow, echo, transcript, transcription, recording, scan, chip off the old block, reprint, new printing, rechauffe, apograph, fair copy, parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty, travestie, paraphrase, derivative, derivation, modification, expansion, extension, revision, second edition, servile copy, servile imitation, plagiarism, counterfeit, fake, pasticcio, faithful, lifelike, close, conscientious, unoriginal, imitative, derivative.

Representation

N representation, representment, imitation, illustration, delineation, depictment, imagery, portraiture, iconography, design, designing, art, fine arts, painting, sculpture, engraving, photography, cinematography, radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy, personation, personification, impersonation, drama, picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, X-ray photo, movie film, movie, tracing, scan, TV image, video image, image file, graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit TV, copy, drawing, sketch, drought, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan), ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram, represent, representing, representative, illustrative, represented, imitative, figurative, iconic, like, graphic, cinquecento quattrocento, trecento.

VB copy, drawing, sketch, drought, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan), ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram, V, represent, delineate, depict, depicture, portray, take a likeness, catch a likeness, hit off, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, figure, shadow forth, shadow out, adumbrate, body forth, describe, trace, copy, mold, dress up, illustrate, symbolize, paint, carve, engrave, personate, personify, impersonate, assume a character, pose as, act, play, mimic, hold the mirror up to nature.

Painting

N painting, depicting, drawing, design, perspective, sciagraphy, skiagraphy, chiaroscuro, composition, treatment, historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting, landscape painting, marine painting, still life, flower painting, scene painting, scenography, school, style, the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture, ornamental art, monochrome, polychrome, grisaille, pallet, palette, easel, brush, pencil, stump, black lead, charcoal, crayons, chalk, pastel, paint, watercolor, body color, oil color, oils, oil paint, varnish, priming, gouache, tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass, enamel, encaustic painting, mosaic, tapestry, photography, heliography, color photography, sun painting, graphics, computer graphics, picture, painting, piece, tableau, canvas, oil painting, fresco, cartoon, easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft, pencil drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink, sketch, outline, study, photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph, heliograph, daguerreotype, talbotype, calotype, heliotype, negative, positive, print, glossy print, matte print, enlargement, reduction, life-size print, instant photo, Polaroid photo, technicolor, Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Polaroid, portrait, whole length, full length, half length, kitcat, head, miniature, shade, silhouette, profile, landscape, seapiece, view, scene, prospect, panorama, diorama, still life, picture gallery, exhibit, studio, atelier, pinacotheca, painted, pictorial, graphic, picturesque, pencil, oil, in pencil, fecit, delineavit, mutum est pictura poema.