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Plural of portrait

regular plural

The plural of portrait is portraits.

Forms of portrait

Singularportrait /ˈpɔːtɹeɪt/
Pluralportraits
Countablecountable and uncountable

Portraits in a sentence

  • His portraits looked stiff and formal but his candids showed life being lived.From the entry candid
  • The portraits on the wall aren’t that good, but they’re just sorta cool to have around.From the entry sorta
  • Corbett’s ceramics, as well as their portraits, and blankets designed as part of the collaboration.2021 May 4, Jessica Bumpus, “Ceramics Are in Fashion”, in The New York Times. From the entry ceramic
  • His birds are not carefully posed to illustrate every plumage detail; they are impressions rather than portraits.2015, Nick Davies, chapter 3, in Cuckoo - Cheating by Nature (paperback), London: Bloomsbury, page 53. From the entry jizz
  • In Evelina, memory produces matriarchal resemblance; other Gothic novels artifactualize it in portraits.2012, Kamilla Elliott, Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction, page 134. From the entry artifactualize

Meaning of portrait

  1. noun A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
  2. noun An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.
  3. noun A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

Full definition of portrait

Questions about the plural of portrait

What is the plural of portrait?
The plural of portrait is portraits.
Is portrait countable?
Portrait is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: portrait (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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