portrayer
noun
a person or thing that portrays someone or something else in literature, visual art, a dramatic performance, or other media.
portrayers
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pluralof portrayer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But the movie’s two hours offer plenty of room for their portrayers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2025
Or maybe we, too, should forget the characters and think about their flesh-and-blood portrayers.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2022
In a story perhaps all too familiar, Anderson sports some major dental prosthetics, as all Eleanor Roosevelt portrayers seemingly must, but brings heart to the part.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
This third time’s the charm in Marvel’s pantheon of Spider-Man portrayers.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2017
Dante, if his poetic nature had taken a different bent, and Shakespeare, if he had only chosen, could have been her portrayers singly; no others that I can think of, and certainly no Frenchman.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
