portraitnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpɔː.trət//ˈpɔː.treɪt/us/ˈpɔːr.trɪt/B2 a painting, photograph, drawing, etc. of a person or, less commonly, of a group of people:
She's commissioned an artist to paint her portrait/paint a portrait of her.
a portrait gallery
a portrait painter
A film or book that is a portrait of something describes or represents that thing in a detailed way:
Her latest novel paints a very vivid portrait of the aristocracy in the 1920s.
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- an exceptionally fine portrait
- a lifelike portrait of the queen
- The portrait was finished after only three sittings.
- It was said that the portrait was a very true likeness of her.
- The movie paints a very vivid portrait of family life during the 1950's.
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Pictures
- -scape
- abstract
- aquatint
- balloon
- canvas
- caricature
- cartoon
- graphics
- halo
- identikit
- illustration
- infographic
- pencil
- pixelated
- poster
- seascape
- self-portrait
- shade
- sketch
- speech bubble
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portraitadjective
uk/ˈpɔː.trət//ˈpɔː.treɪt/us/ˈpɔːr.trɪt/A portrait computer document is to be printed with the shorter side of the paper at the top and bottom.
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Computer concepts
- aeroplane mode
- airplane mode
- atomicity
- augmented reality
- back end
- clone
- cloud
- corruption
- default to sth
- electronic
- gigabyte
- GUI
- multimedia
- reboot
- template
- tuple
- virtual
- virtually
- web hosting
- what you see is what you get idiom
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