autograph
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Etymology edit
From Latin autographum, in turn from Ancient Greek αὐτόγραφον (autógraphon, “a writing in one’s own hand”). Equivalent to auto- + -graph.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
autograph (plural autographs)
- A person’s own handwriting, especially the signature of a famous or admired person.
- Some autograph-hunters were pestering the players after the game.
- (by extension, colloquial) A person's signature used as a mark of formal approval.
- If you could just put your autograph on the ol' contract, please...
- A manuscript in the author’s handwriting.
Synonyms edit
- (person’s own handwriting): penmanship, handwriting, chirography
- (personal signature): signature, inscription (inexact)
- (manuscript in author’s hand): protograph, holograph, archetype, original
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signature
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hand-written manuscript
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Adjective edit
autograph (not comparable)
- Written in the author’s own handwriting.
- (art) Made by the artist himself or herself; authentic.
- 1979, Nancy L Pressly, The Fuseli Circle in Rome, Yale Center for British Art, p. 37:
- Schiff […] believes most of the drawings are autograph.
- 1992, Malise Forbes Adam, Mary Mauchline, edited by Wendy Wassyng Roworth, Angelica Kauffman, Reaktion Books, published 1992, page 116:
- Not surprisingly, he attributed to Kauffman two important works that are no longer accepted as autograph.
- 1979, Nancy L Pressly, The Fuseli Circle in Rome, Yale Center for British Art, p. 37:
Translations edit
hand-written manuscript
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Verb edit
autograph (third-person singular simple present autographs, present participle autographing, simple past and past participle autographed)
- (transitive) To sign, or write one’s name or signature on a book etc
- (transitive) To write something in one's own handwriting
Translations edit
to sign, or write one’s name or signature on a book
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to write something in one’s own handwriting
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