portraits

6 definitions • 6 examples

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.

A portrait computer document is to be printed with the shorter side of the paper at the top and bottom.

a painting, photograph, or drawing of a person

A portrait is also a description or representation of something:

The book paints a grim portrait of wartime suffering.

used to describe a computer document that is to be printed with the shorter side of the paper at the top and bottom:

The design was intended to be distributed in printed form, so the pages are laid out for printing in A4 portrait format.