portrait
noun
a likeness of a person, especially of the face, as a painting, drawing, or photograph.
portraits
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pluralof portrait.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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She is one of the 2,000-year-old "Faces of Fayum", startlingly realistic funerary -- or mummy -- portraits painted after Egypt became part of the Roman empire.
From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026
In Wisconsin, artist Livien Lin is producing “Paper Suns,” a series of imagined portraits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Downing Street's famous staircase is lined with portraits of former prime ministers.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
The pieces here range in form from figured reliefs to architectural elements to statuettes; in subject from devotional images to portraits; and in scale from the intimate to the grandly sized.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
“Not the same kind, probably. Mine painted portraits, the ocean, that kind of stuff. My dad has some of them still hanging in his gallery in Delray.”
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
