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Definition of Portrayer
1. Noun. A painter or drawer of portraits.
Generic synonyms: Painter
Derivative terms: Limn, Portray, Portray, Portray
Definition of Portrayer
1. n. One who portrays.
Definition of Portrayer
1. Noun. Agent noun of portray; one who portrays. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Portrayer
1. one that portrays [n -S] - See also: portrays
Lexicographical Neighbors of Portrayer
Literary usage of Portrayer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"a portrayer of certain aristocratic types. Their success on publication owed
something to the art with which he introduced real personages into them under a ..."
2. On Early English Pronunciation, with Especial Reference to Shakspere and by Alexander John Ellis (1871)
"... Portraiture 1968, portrayer 1899; the variants may be explained as in Courtesy,
... portrayer ..."
3. Vandyck by M G. Smallwood (1904)
"CHAPTER X MANY ENGLISH PORTRAITS portrayer of children—Saved by ... IT was in
England that Vandyck made his reputation as a portrayer of children, ..."
4. The American Phonographic Dictionary: Exhibiting the Correct and Actual by Elias Longley (1882)
"... i Portion-ed Portioning Portionless Portly Portliness Port-manteau Portrait
Portraiture Portray-ed portrayer Portraying Portrayal Portress Port-warden ..."
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