English-Danish translations for portrait

• portræt
  For nylig blev nogle tibetanske munke dømt, angiveligt for at være i besiddelse af portrætter af Dalai Lama. Recently, some Tibetan monks were sentenced, allegedly for possessing portraits of the Dalai Lama.
  I lufthavnen lagde jeg mærke til, at der virkelig i hvert rum hænger et portræt af den syriske præsident Hafez al-Assad og hans forulykkede søn. It struck me in the airport that every hall had a portrait of the Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and his dead son.
  Det eksempel, som kommissionsmedlemmet gav, nemlig at man fængsler munke for at have et portræt af Dalai Lama, er bare et eksempel på, hvor absurd denne undertrykkelse er. The example given by the Commissioner, namely of monks being imprisoned for having portraits of the Dalai Lama, is just one example of how absurd this oppression is.
• kontrafej

Definition of portrait

• A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders
• An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc
• A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides
• To portray; to draw
• Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal

Examples

• The author painted a good portrait of urban life in New York in his latest book.
• a portrait bust; a portrait statue

Related words

• self-portrait
• portraitist
• portrait photography
• family portrait
• role portrait
• ancestral portrait
• self portrait
• mummy portraits