n.1 a representation of a person or animal, esp. of the face, made by drawing, painting, photography, etc.
2 a verbal picture; a graphic description.
3 a person etc. resembling or typifying another (is the portrait of his father).
4 (in graphic design etc.) a format in which the height of an illustration etc. is greater than the width (cf. LANDSCAPE).
Etymology: F, past part. of OF portraire PORTRAY