"microportrait" meaning in English

See microportrait in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: microportraits [plural]
Etymology: From micro- + portrait. Etymology templates: {{pre|en|micro-|portrait}} micro- + portrait Head templates: {{en-noun}} microportrait (plural microportraits)
  1. An extremely small portrait.
    Sense id: en-microportrait-en-noun-pKwNTxD9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with micro-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 62 38 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with micro-: 66 34 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 76 24 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 85 15
  2. A brief depiction of something.
    Sense id: en-microportrait-en-noun-~lLOMoFJ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: micro-portrait

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "micro-",
        "3": "portrait"
      },
      "expansion": "micro- + portrait",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From micro- + portrait.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "microportraits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "microportrait (plural microportraits)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "62 38",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "66 34",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with micro-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "76 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "85 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, Howard Wolf, Forgive the Father: A Memoir of Changing Generations, Washington, D.C.: New Republic Books, →ISBN, page 118:",
          "text": "He takes me into an ascetic bedroom with a large carved bed. A few of his microportraits hang on the newly painted stucco walls.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An extremely small portrait."
      ],
      "id": "en-microportrait-en-noun-pKwNTxD9",
      "links": [
        [
          "portrait",
          "portrait#Noun"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The film presents a microportrait of life deep in the Amazon jungle.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, New York: Palgrave, →ISBN, page 162:",
          "text": "The highly rhetorical descriptio of Philomena (ll;. 124–204) shows a courtly writer using a classical character to create a flattering microportrait of courtly society.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 February 14, Stefano Montali, “Meet Cutes NYC Captures Manhattan’s Love Stories”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-24:",
          "text": "Jeremy Bernstein, Victor Lee and Aaron Feinberg run Meet Cutes NYC, which publishes microportraits of modern love on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. Each video begins with Mr. Bernstein asking, \"Excuse me, are you two a couple?\" as the team approaches a pair of unsuspecting sweethearts with their camera. \"Would you mind telling me the story of how you first met?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A brief depiction of something."
      ],
      "id": "en-microportrait-en-noun-~lLOMoFJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "depiction",
          "depiction#Noun"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "micro-portrait"
    }
  ],
  "word": "microportrait"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms prefixed with micro-",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "micro-",
        "3": "portrait"
      },
      "expansion": "micro- + portrait",
      "name": "pre"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From micro- + portrait.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "microportraits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "microportrait (plural microportraits)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, Howard Wolf, Forgive the Father: A Memoir of Changing Generations, Washington, D.C.: New Republic Books, →ISBN, page 118:",
          "text": "He takes me into an ascetic bedroom with a large carved bed. A few of his microportraits hang on the newly painted stucco walls.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An extremely small portrait."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "portrait",
          "portrait#Noun"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The film presents a microportrait of life deep in the Amazon jungle.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature, New York: Palgrave, →ISBN, page 162:",
          "text": "The highly rhetorical descriptio of Philomena (ll;. 124–204) shows a courtly writer using a classical character to create a flattering microportrait of courtly society.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 February 14, Stefano Montali, “Meet Cutes NYC Captures Manhattan’s Love Stories”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-24:",
          "text": "Jeremy Bernstein, Victor Lee and Aaron Feinberg run Meet Cutes NYC, which publishes microportraits of modern love on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. Each video begins with Mr. Bernstein asking, \"Excuse me, are you two a couple?\" as the team approaches a pair of unsuspecting sweethearts with their camera. \"Would you mind telling me the story of how you first met?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A brief depiction of something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "depiction",
          "depiction#Noun"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "micro-portrait"
    }
  ],
  "word": "microportrait"
}

Download raw JSONL data for microportrait meaning in English (2.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.