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portrait

noun
/ˈpɔːtɹeɪt/UK/ˈpɔɹtɹət/US/ˈpoʊɹtɹət/

Etymology

From Middle French portraict, pourtraict, nominal use of the past participle of portraire (“portray”), from Latin prōtrahō (< prō- + trahō). Compare typologically English drawing.

  1. derived from prōtrahō
  2. derived from portraict

Definitions

  1. A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.

    • In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.

  2. An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.

    • The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.

  3. A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. To portray

      To portray; to draw.

      • But all as in most exquisite pictures, they vse to blaze and portrait, not only the daintie lineaments or beautie, but also round about it to shadowe the rude thickets and craggy clifts
      • Methinkes yᵉ picture of Sᵗ George fighting with yᵉ Dragon hath some resemblance of Sᵗ Michael fighting with the Devil, who is pourtrated like a Dragon.

    2. Representing the actual features of an individual

      Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.

      • a portrait bust; a portrait statue

The neighborhood

  • antonymlandscapeantonym(s) of “print mode or selection”
  • antonymprofileantonym(s) of “print mode or selection”
  • neighborportray
  • neighbortrait

Derived

autoportrait, Faiyum portrait, Fayum portrait, microportrait, miniportrait, mummy portrait, pen portrait, photo-portrait, Portraitgate, portraitist, portraitlike, portraitor, portrait painting, self-portrait, swagger portrait

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at portrait. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at portrait. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at portrait

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA