portraitist

Questions about portraitist

What does portraitist mean?

portraitist means "a painter or drawer of portraits".

How many syllables are in portraitist?

portraitist has 3 syllables and divides as por-trai-tist under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for portraitist?

Close synonyms include portrait painter, portrayer, limner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is portraitist a common word?

portraitist is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.