Portrait: Definition and part of speech

Portrait

  1. v. t. To portray; to draw.
  2. n. The likeness of a person, painted, drawn, or engraved; commonly, a representation of the human face painted from real life.
  3. n. Hence, any graphic or vivid delineation or description of a person; as, a portrait in words.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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