What does portrait mean in English?

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portrait Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 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
- Her latest novel paints a very vivid portrait of the aristocracy in the 1920s.
1 A portrait computer document is to be printed with the shorter side of the paper at the top and bottom.
2 a painting, photograph, or drawing of a person
- The book paints a grim portrait of wartime suffering.
3 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.

an exceptionally fine portrait
a lifelike portrait of the queen
The portrait was finished after only three sittings.
It was said that the portrait was a very true likeness of her.
The movie paints a very vivid portrait of family life during the 1950's.
In their disturbing psychological complexities, glazed over but never concealed by rich aesthetic surfaces, they are anxious portraits of the tormented and divided modern subject.
30 per cent of the 19th century portraits and 22 per cent of those painted during the 20th century.
Such ' promenade portraits ' encapsulated the companionate marriage, hailed as a blend of masculine rationality and feminine tenderness.