Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A photograph.
  • transitive & intransitive verb To photograph or take photographs.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A colloquial abbreviation of photograph.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun colloq. A contraction of photograph.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun photograph
  • verb To take a photograph.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material

Etymologies

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Shortened form of photograph

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Examples

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  • Next to the photo is a quote from former Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter that says, "Government is itself an art ... one of the subtlest of arts."

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  • This photo is also featured on the White House website.

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  • This photo is also featured on the White House website.

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