photograph

1 of 2

noun

pho·​to·​graph ˈfō-tə-ˌgraf How to pronounce photograph (audio)
: a picture or likeness obtained by photography

photograph

2 of 2

verb

photographed; photographing; photographs

transitive verb

: to take a photograph of

intransitive verb

1
: to take a photograph
2
: to appear as an image in a photograph
an actress who photographs well

Examples of photograph in a Sentence

Noun I always take a lot of photographs when I travel. the old photograph was faded but still clear enough to make out Verb He photographed the women sitting on the bench. She was photographed in the studio.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
All the photographs were published by the school and are still publicly accessible. Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024 In response to the conspiracy theories, the Royal Family released a photograph of the princess and her three children for British Mother’s Day, which was quickly discovered to be digitally altered, prompting news outlets to retract the photo and thus magnify the situation at least a hundredfold. Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2024 The Middleton-Windsor photograph, alas, was not an Invisible Motocross situation. Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2024 The best one here, for me, is Pippa Garner’s layout of photographs, photocopies and other ephemera tacked onto wood paneling, which stretches along most of the third floor. Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024 Images, even photographs, are not necessarily accurate depictions of reality, and this is hardly a secret to photographers or documentarians. Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 13 Mar. 2024 The real photograph taken in November 1988 featured Downey with his then-girlfriend Sarah Jessica Parker at a Young Artists Unite event in Los Angeles. Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Mar. 2024 Here, Murillo displayed photographs of a few men—shabby, dejected, filthy, and, as seasoned reporters immediately guessed, tortured. Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2024 Gates, 68, captioned a smiling photograph of himself and the 39-year-old Meta CEO. Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
Verb
Earlier this month, she and Joshua Jackson were photographed packing on the PDA while on vacation in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to celebrate Nyong'o's birthday. Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2024 She was photographed relentlessly, even appearing in Vogue. Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2024 The night Johnson was elected to Congress, Patrick was photographed in a crowd behind his son. David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2024 Commentary circulated on blogs and in glossy magazines about how her physique fit (or didn’t fit) a certain paradigm for the female form; eventually Middleton was photographed sunbathing without a bikini top. Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2024 That spring, she was famously photographed shaking hands, ungloved, with a patient, a public rebuke to the false notion that HIV could be transmitted by touch. Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Mar. 2024 One of the judges the party nominated had been photographed with far-right and anti-vaccination supporters who tried to storm the German Parliament during a protest in 2020. Erika Solomon, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024 Morrison was photographed arriving at his home that night, along with his wife, Suzanne Langford Perry. Shania Russell, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2024 He was photographed shaking hands with Samba Mamadou Ba, the ambassador from the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, and Nourredine Yazid, the ambassador from the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria. Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1839, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1839, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

Time Traveler
The first known use of photograph was in 1839

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Cite this Entry

“Photograph.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/photograph. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

photograph

1 of 2 noun
pho·​to·​graph ˈfōt-ə-ˌgraf How to pronounce photograph (audio)
: a picture obtained by photography

photograph

2 of 2 verb
1
: to take a photograph of
2
: to take photographs
3
: to be photographed
photographer
fə-ˈtäg-rə-fər
noun

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