photograph

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Your photograph has been announced to me by an amiable hand, but has not made its appearance so far.

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  1. noun An image, especially a positive print, recorded by a camera and reproduced on a photosensitive surface.
  2. transitive verb To take a photograph of.
  3. intransitive verb To practice photography.

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  1. = French photographe = Italian fotografo, a photograph (cf. Spanish fotografía = Portuguese photographia = Italian fotografia, a photograph: see photography); Spanish fotografo = Portuguese photographo = Italian fotografo = German photograph = Swedish Danish fotograf = New Greek φωτογράφος, a photographer, from Greek φῶς (φωτ-), light, + γράφειν, write.
  2. from photograph, n.
 

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/ˈfoʊtəgræf/
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