portraits
- 1Plural of portrait.
The museum's east wing displays portraits of nineteenth-century statesmen.
Several family portraits hung above the mantelpiece in heavy gilt frames.
Note
The plural fits the countable senses of portrait. These are paintings of people and figurative depictions of a person or a mood, as in a novel's portraits of small-town life. The page-orientation sense is often uncountable, so a document is printed in portrait, not in portraits. The adjective, meaning true to a sitter's actual features rather than idealized, never takes the -s.
portraits is a form of portrait
portrait, noun: A person's likeness in a painting or another kind of picture, typically showing the head and shoulders. Full entry
- Forms
- portraitportraits plural
- Spelling
- portrait → portraits: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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