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portrayee

portrayee noun: one who is portrayed.

Noun

portrayee (plural portrayees)

  1. (rare) One who is portrayed.
    • […] portrayees include everyone from Francesco Hayez to Carlo Carra.1991, Richard Saul Wurman, Florence/Venice/Milan Access, HarperPerennial, →ISBN, page 104
    • The technique of the self-portrait should dominate, and again, not in the Who-is-Who style, with an enumeration of degrees, awards, and publications, but rather as an intellectual history of the portrayee: e.g., How did you come to linguistics — To which method or ‘school’ of linguistics — Your...1992 fall, Braj B. Kachru, “Introduction”, in Studies in the Linguistic Sciences, volume 22, number 2, page 4

Forms of portrayee

pluralportrayees

Origin of portrayee

From portray + -ee.

Questions about portrayee

What does portrayee mean?
Portrayee means one who is portrayed.
What part of speech is portrayee?
Portrayee is a noun.
What is the plural of portrayee?
The plural of portrayee is portrayees.

Words near portrayee in the dictionary

  1. portrayability
  2. portrayable
  3. portrayal
  4. portrayals
  5. portrayed
  6. portrayee
  7. portrayees
  8. portrayer
  9. portrayers
  10. portrayeth
  11. portraying

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