Synonyms for portrait
ˈpɔr trɪt, -treɪt, ˈpoʊr-por·trait

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.7 / 14 votes

1. portraitnoun

   a print mode or selection specifying the rectangle to be printed on having the vertical sides longer than the horizontal sides.

   Antonyms:
   profile, landscape

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. portrayal, portraiture, portraitnoun

   a word picture of a person's appearance and character

   Synonyms:
   portraiture, characterization, depicting, depiction, delineation, portraying, portrayal, enactment, personation

2. portrait, portrayalnoun

   any likeness of a person, in any medium

   "the photographer made excellent portraits"

   Synonyms:
   portraiture, characterization, depicting, personation, delineation, portraying, portrayal, enactment, depiction

Matched Categories

1. • Likeness
   • Word Picture

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1. portraitnoun

   Synonyms:
   representation (of a face or a person, drawn or painted), likeness, daguerreotype, photograph, portraiture, MINIATURE

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1. List of paraphrases for "portrait":

   picture, portraits, vertical, portrayal, sketch, profile, spitting, likeness, snapshot, overview, depiction, painting

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1. Glenn Godenho:

   Add to this a hoard of coins with Cleopatras portrait on them, and other Greco-Roman period finds not [the] least, fragments of statuary and mummies and we can certainly say that Taposiris Magna was active during Cleopatras reign.

2. Bob Gale:

   We thought about it when we made the movie! Are you kidding? you watch Part II again and there's a scene where Marty confronts Biff in his office and there's a huge portrait of Biff on the wall behind Biff, and there's one moment where Biff kind of stands up and he takes exactly the same pose as the portrait? Yeah.

3. Julia Leeb:

   You have to bow ... out of respect, and if you take pictures, you should take the entire statue, you cannot take a portrait, for example ... because it's a lack of respect. And you cannot take pictures from behind.

4. Photographer Ken Hermann:

   All the other sellers -- they are so busy, so just convincing them to go near the river to get their portrait done and spend maybe 15 minutes of their time was a challenge, because every minute they're not standing in the flower (market), they lose money.

5. Sebastien Allard:

   This is an exceptional work, legendary in Rembrandt's repertoire. This type of full-body portrait did not exist in Holland in the 17th century. they are among the most valuable paintings of the era.