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{
"term": "portrait",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a painting, drawing or photograph of a person, especially of the head and shoulders",
"sensetop": "portrait of somebody",
"labels": "(US English)(US English)(US English)(especially British English)(North American English usually)(British English)(North American English)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a portrait of his wife",
"contextForm": "portrait of somebody"
},
{
"text": "a full-length portrait"
},
{
"text": "He had his portrait painted in uniform."
},
{
"text": "a portrait painter"
},
{
"text": "a portrait of the Queen by Annigoni"
},
{
"text": "Vermeer's ‘Portrait of the artist in his studio’"
}
],
"topics": ["Art"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["full-length", "half-length", "oil"],
"verb + portrait": ["do", "draw", "paint"],
"portrait + verb": ["hang"],
"portrait + noun": ["gallery", "artist", "painter"],
"preposition": ["portrait by", "portrait of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a detailed description of somebody/something",
"sensetop": "portrait of somebody/something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a portrait of life at the French court",
"contextForm": "portrait of somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "The film paints a portrait of a man consumed with jealousy."
},
{
"text": "The book drew a stark portrait of Quebec's urban poor."
},
{
"text": "The novel provides a vivid portrait of the Holberg family."
},
{
"text": "Her first film was a stunning portrait of life in the sugar plantations of her native Martinique."
}
],
"synonyms": "depiction",
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["intimate", "vivid", "pen"],
"verb + portrait": ["create", "draw", "offer"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "the way of printing a document in which the top of the page is one of the shorter sides",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "You can print landscape and portrait pages in the same document."
}
],
"topics": ["Computers"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈpɔːtreɪt//ˈpɔːtrət/",
"audio": "po/portrait/portrait__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈpɔːrtrət/",
"audio": "po/portrait/portrait__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from French, past participle (used as a noun) of Old French portraire ‘portray’."
}