/ˈfəʊ.tə.ɡrɑːf/
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Translation
A picture that you make with a camera. The short word for it is photo.
Word origin
Made in the 1830s from Greek phos meaning light and graphein meaning to write.
- Origin
- Greek
- Root
- phos + graphein
- English cognates
- photo, telegraph
Grammar
Gender
Pluralphotographs
Examples
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A "photograph" is a picture made with a camera.
sunset.
We say "take a photograph", not "make a photograph".
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The plural is "photographs", and the short form is "photos".
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