whole-length

adjective

Depicting the whole figure.

Meanings

adjectivewhole-length (not comparable)
  1. not comparableartDepicting the whole figure.

    A whole-length Picture of a Woman, by Van Dyck

    1693, A Catalogue of the Pictures in the Collection of Mr. Lanckrinck, Lately Deceased; […], London: […] [A]t Mr. Smith’s […] and at Mr. Basset’s […] and at Mr. Lanckrinck’s […], page 7
    2 more examples

    In the Great Gallery is a moſt admirable Ritratto of Cardinal Spada, a whole-length Figure, ſitting; by Guido.

    1730, Edward Wright, Some Observations Made in Travelling Through France, Italy, &c. in the Years 1720, 1721, and 1722, London: […] Tho. Ward and E. Wicksteed, […], page 299

    [A]s Lady D. was not there, Charlotte had leisure to look about, & to be told by Mʳˢ P. that the whole-length Portrait of a stately Gentleman, which placed over the Mantlepeice,^([sic]) caught the eye immediately, was the picture of Sir H. Denham—[…]

    Sanditon

    1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 12, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 […] [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1925, →OCLC, page 170
nounwhole-length (plural whole-lengths)

plural whole-lengths

  1. artA portrait or statue depicting the whole figure.
Cite this entry
APA

whole-length. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whole-length

MLA

“whole-length.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whole-length. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “whole-length,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whole-length.

Source: whole-length on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.