(also photo) a picture that is made by using a camera that has a film sensitive to light inside it:
aerial / satellite photographs * colour photographs * His photograph appeared in the local paper. * Please enclose a recent passport-sized photograph of yourself. * I spent the day taking photographs of the city.
HELPNOTE The usual phrase in AmE is take pictures.
Part of speech: verb
1 to take a photograph of sb/sth:
[VN] He has photographed some of the world's most beautiful women. * a beautifully photographed book (= with good photographs in it) * [VN-ADJ] She refused to be photographed nude. * [VN-ing] They were photographed playing with their children.
2 [V] ~ well, badly, etc. to look or not look attractive in photographs:
Some people just don't photograph well.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is photograph a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, photograph is tagged as noun.
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