photograph

pho-to-graph · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    A picture made using a camera, in which an image is focused onto light-sensitive material and then made visible by chemical or digital processing.

  2. 2.

    (as verb) To take a photograph of something or someone.

Forms

plural: photographs

Related words

See also: camera, photo, picture
Synonyms: image, photo, picture, snapshot

Etymology

From Greek photos ("light") + graphein ("to write, draw"). Coined in the 1830s when photography was invented.