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PORTRAYING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does portraying mean? 

PORTRAYING (noun)
  The noun PORTRAYING has 1 sense:

1. a representation by picture or portraitureplay

  Familiarity information: PORTRAYING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PORTRAYING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A representation by picture or portraiture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

depicting; depiction; portrayal; portraying

Hypernyms ("portraying" is a kind of...):

representational process (any basic cognitive process in which some entity comes to stand for or represent something else)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "portraying"):

mirror (a faithful depiction or reflection)

Derivation:

portray (make a portrait of)

portray (represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture)


 Context examples 


I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings,—all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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