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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

초상화가

Pronunciation / Transliteration: chosanghwaga

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Portraitist
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그녀는 당대 최고의 초상화가 중 한 명이었습니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An artist who paints, draws, sculpts, or photographs portraits.

    "Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun was celebrated as one of the finest portraitists of the 18th century."
  2. 2

    A writer who provides detailed descriptive sketches of people's characters or lives.

    "As a literary portraitist, the biographer captured the subtle nuances of her subjects' personalities."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the French noun 'portrait', originating from the Old French 'portraire' (to draw, portray), stemming from the Latin 'protrahere' (to draw forth, reveal). The suffix '-ist' is added to denote a person who practices or performs an action, establishing the term in English during the late 16th century to describe artists specializing in painting or photographing faces.

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