Portrayal

//ˌpɔɹˈtɹeɪ.əl// noun

noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of portraying.
  2. 2
    acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture wordnet
  3. 3
    The result of portraying; a representation, description, or portrait.

    "1866, Charlotte Yonge, The Dove in the Eagle's Nest He had already designed the portrayal of his father as the old white king, and himself as the young white king, in a series of woodcuts illustrating the narrative which culminated in the one romance of his life, ..."

  4. 4
    representation by drawing or painting etc wordnet
  5. 5
    any likeness of a person, in any medium wordnet
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  1. 6
    a representation by picture or portraiture wordnet
  2. 7
    a word picture of a person's appearance and character wordnet

Synonyms

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depictionportraitaccountactingalphabetaping

Example

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"That film was an extremely inaccurate portrayal of key historical events."

Etymology

From portray + -al.

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