PORTRAY


Meaning of PORTRAY in English

(~s, ~ing, ~ed)

1.

When an actor or actress ~s someone, he or she plays that person in a play or film.

In 1975 he ~ed the king in a Los Angeles revival of ‘Camelot’.

...the busty and rumbustious Mrs Hall, excellently ~ed by Toni Palmer.

VERB: V n, V-ed

2.

When a writer or artist ~s something, he or she writes a description or produces a painting of it.

...this northern novelist, who accurately ~s provincial domestic life.

...the landscape as ~ed by painters such as Claude and Poussin.

= depict

VERB: V n, V-ed

3.

If a film, book, or television programme ~s someone in a certain way, it represents them in that way.

She says the programme ~ed her as a ‘lady of easy virtue’.

...complaints about the way women are ~ed in adverts.

VERB: V n as n, be V-ed

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