Etymology
From photo- (Greek suffix meaning light]] + -graph (Greek suffix meaning writing).
Noun
photograph (plural photographs)
- A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
- I'm glad we live in an era of photographs; now we can see what our favorite celebrities actually look like, not just painters' interpretations!
Derived terms
- aerial photograph
- file photograph
- photo
- photographer
- photographic
- photography
- X-ray photograph
Verb
photograph (third-person singular simple present photographs, present participle photographing, simple past and past participle photographed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To take a photograph (of).
- I had dreams of photographing various landmarks for a stock image library.
- (transitive, intransitive) To fix permanently in the memory etc.
- (intransitive) To appear in a photograph.
- She photographs well. The camera loves her.
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