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photograph

Pronunciation: /ˈfəʊtəgrɑːf/
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Definition of photograph

noun

  • a picture made using a camera, in which an image is focused on to light-sensitive material and then made visible and permanent by chemical treatment, or stored digitally: a photograph of her father

verb

[with object]
  • take a photograph of: she has photographed all of the major ballet companies worldwide [no object]:he was commissioned to photograph in the Crimea during the war
  • [no object, with adverbial] appear in a particular way when in a photograph:that cityscape photographs well

Derivatives

photographable

adjective

photograph in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of photograph in the US English dictionary
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