Profile Meaning
/ˈpɹəʊfaɪl/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
nounThe shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
Sentence Examples
The paper published a profile of its new editor.
The portrait shows the profile of a beautiful woman.
We first build up a detailed profile of our customers and their requirements.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The company wanted to raise its public ____ through a new advertising campaign.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The marketing team created a detailed customer ____ to better target their advertising campaigns.
Word Origin & History
From French profil, from Italian profilo (“a border”), later also proffilo (“a side-face, profile”), from Latin pro (“before”) + filo (“a line, stroke, thread”), from filum (“a thread”); see file. Doublet of purfle.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"After getting permisssion from my mom, I personal messaged ten different Harveys from her profile who seemed “obviously” Native and lived in Phoenix."
— 2018, Tommy Orange, “Edwin Black”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 69:
"The book The Men with the Pink Triangles, profiling the lives of gay prisoners in the German concentration camp."
— 1984 April 7, Warren Blumenfeld, “Boston's Other Voice”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
"A resource that profiles the important language of secondary disciplines by adapting the methods of EAP research could therefore be very useful for such pedagogy."
— 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 106:
"[…] a complete and intuitive profiler that supports numerous types of profiling modes and profilable applications."
— 2006, Dr. Dobb's Journal:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The company wanted to raise its public ____ through a new advertising campaign.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The marketing team created a detailed customer ____ to better target their advertising campaigns.