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microportraits

microportraits is the plural of microportrait.

Meaning of microportrait

Noun

microportrait (plural microportraits)

  1. An extremely small portrait.
    • He takes me into an ascetic bedroom with a large carved bed. A few of his microportraits hang on the newly painted stucco walls.1978, Howard Wolf, Forgive the Father: A Memoir of Changing Generations, Washington, D.C.: New Republic Books, →ISBN, page 118
  2. A brief depiction of something.
    • The film presents a microportrait of life deep in the Amazon jungle.

Questions about microportraits

What is microportraits the plural of?
Microportraits is the plural of microportrait.

Words near microportraits in the dictionary

  1. microporosity
  2. microporous
  3. microporphyric
  4. microporphyritic
  5. microportrait
  6. microportraits
  7. micropositioner
  8. micropositioners
  9. micropositioning
  10. micropost
  11. microposthia

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