{
    "term": "portrait",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a painting, drawing or photograph of a person, especially of the head and shoulders",
            "sensetop": "portrait of somebody",
            "labels": "(US English)(US English)(US English)(especially British English)(North American English usually)(British English)(North American English)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a portrait of his wife",
                    "contextForm": "portrait of somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a full-length portrait"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He had his portrait painted in uniform."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a portrait painter"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a portrait of the Queen by Annigoni"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Vermeer's ‘Portrait of the artist in his studio’"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Art"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["full-length", "half-length", "oil"],
                "verb + portrait": ["do", "draw", "paint"],
                "portrait + verb": ["hang"],
                "portrait + noun": ["gallery", "artist", "painter"],
                "preposition": ["portrait by", "portrait of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a detailed description of somebody/something",
            "sensetop": "portrait of somebody/something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a portrait of life at the French court",
                    "contextForm": "portrait of somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The film paints a portrait of a man consumed with jealousy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book drew a stark portrait of Quebec's urban poor."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The novel provides a vivid portrait of the Holberg family."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her first film was a stunning portrait of life in the sugar plantations of her native Martinique."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "depiction",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["intimate", "vivid", "pen"],
                "verb + portrait": ["create", "draw", "offer"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "the way of printing a document in which the top of the page is one of the shorter sides",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "You can print landscape and portrait pages in the same document."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Computers"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɔːtreɪt//ˈpɔːtrət/",
                "audio": "po/portrait/portrait__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpɔːrtrət/",
                "audio": "po/portrait/portrait__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 16th cent.: from French, past participle (used as a noun) of Old French portraire ‘portray’."
}