English-Dutch translations for portrait

• portret
  Mijnheer de president, de afgelopen week heeft het Duitse weekblad Der Spiegel een portret van u gepubliceerd onder de titel "De omnipresident”. Mr President, last week the German weekly newspaper Der Spiegel published a portrait of you entitled 'The Omnipresident'.
  Op de luchthaven viel me op dat werkelijk in iedere ruimte daar een portret van de Syrische president Hafez al-Assad en z'n verongelukte zoon hangt.It struck me in the airport that every hall had a portrait of the Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and his dead son.
  Op het Tian An Men-plein hangt trouwens nog altijd een reusachtig portret van Mao Zedong, de grootste massamoordenaar van de twintigste eeuw. In fact, a huge portrait of Mao Tse-Tung, the biggest mass murderer of the 20th century, is still on display on Tiananmen Square.
• konterfeitsel
• portretteren
• staand

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