Word Meanings - PORTRAIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life. In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude

Additional info about word: PORTRAIT

1. The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life. In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature. Sir J. Reynolds. Note: The meaning of the word is sometimes extended so as to include a photographic likeness. 2. Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PORTRAIT)

• Likeness
• Similarity
• resemblance
• correspondence
• similitude
• parity
• copy
• imitation
• portrait
• representation
• image
• effigy
• carte de visite
• picture
• Resemblance
• similarity
• semblance
• reflection

Related words: (words related to PORTRAIT)

• CARTEL
  An agreement between belligerents for the exchange of prisoners. Wilhelm. 2. A letter of defiance or challenge; a challenge to single combat. He is cowed at the very idea of a cartel., Sir W. Scott. Cartel, or Cartel ship, a ship employed in the
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• EFFIGY
  The image, likeness, or representation of a person, whether a full figure, or a part; an imitative figure; -- commonly applied to sculptured likenesses, as those on monuments, or to those of the heads of princes on coins and medals, sometimes
• CARTE DE VISITE
  1. A visiting card. 2. A photographic picture of the size formerly in use for a visiting card.
• SIMILITUDE
  1. The quality or state of being similar or like; resemblance; likeness; similarity; as, similitude of substance. Chaucer. Let us make now man in our image, man In our similitude. Milton. If fate some future bard shall join In sad similitude of
• CARTESIAN
  Of or pertaining to the French philosopher René Descartes, or his philosophy. The Cartesion argument for reality of matter. Sir W. Hamilton. Cartesian coördinates , distance of a point from lines or planes; -- used in a system of representing
• CARTER
  1. A charioteer. Chaucer. 2. A man who drives a cart; a teamster. Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman. A British fish; the whiff.
• PICTURESQUISH
  Somewhat picturesque.
• PORTRAITURE
  1. A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model. For, by the image of my cause, I see The portraiture of his. Shak. Divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of
• CARTESIANISM
  The philosophy of Descartes.
• IMAGERY
  1. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. "Painted imagery." Shak. In those oratories might you see Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery. Dryden. 2. Fig.: Unreal
• REFLECTION
  The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex. Angle of reflection, the angle which anything, as a ray of light, on leaving a reflecting surface,
• CARTE
  1. Bill of fare. 2. Short for Carte de visite.
• CARTE QUARTE
  A position in thrusting or parrying, with the inside of the hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary's right breast.
• PICTURER
  One who makes pictures; a painter. Fuller.
• IMAGER
  One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor. Praxiteles was ennobled for a rare imager. Holland.
• REPRESENTATIONARY
  Implying representation; representative.
• PICTURE
  1. The art of painting; representation by painting. Any well-expressed image . . . either in picture or sculpture. Sir H. Wotton. 2. A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced
• SEMBLANCE
  1. Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form. Thier semblance kind, and mild their gestures were. Fairfax. 2. Likeness; resemblance, actual or apparent; similitude; as, the semblance of worth; semblance of virtue. Only semblances or imitations of
• IMAGELESS
  Having no image. Shelley.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• FISSIPARITY
  Quality of being fissiparous; fissiparism.
• LIVING PICTURE
  A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.
• IMPICTURED
  Pictured; impressed. Spenser.
• VERISIMILITUDE
  The quality or state of being verisimilar; the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood. Verisimilitude and opinion are an easy purchase; but true knowledge is dear and difficult. Glanvill. All that gives verisimilitude to a narrative. Sir.
• DISPARITY
  Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, years; a disparity as to color. The disparity between God and his intelligent creatures. I. Taylor.
• DELIMITATION
  The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation. Gladstone.
• WARLIKENESS
  Quality of being warlike.
• VRAISEMBLANCE
  The appearance of truth; verisimilitude.
• MOTION PICTURE
  A moving picture.
• ILLIMITATION
  State of being illimitable; want of, or freedom from, limitation. Bp. Hall.