Autograph

//ˈɔːtəɡɹɑːf// adj, noun, verb, slang

adj, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person’s own handwriting, especially the signature of a famous or admired person.

    "Some autograph-hunters were pestering the players after the game."

  2. 2
    a person's own signature wordnet
  3. 3
    A person's signature used as a mark of formal approval. broadly, colloquial

    "If you could just put your autograph on the ol’ contract, please…"

  4. 4
    something written by one's own hand wordnet
  5. 5
    A manuscript in the author’s handwriting; a handwritten copy.

    "An autograph of this text, made by E. Weidner, will be reproduced as plate XVII."

Verb
  1. 1
    To sign, or write one’s name or signature on a book, etc. transitive

    "Diego Maradona is helping in the fight against coronavirus in his home city by autographing a replica of the Argentina jersey he wore in the country’s 1986 World Cup final triumph to raise money for an underprivileged community."

  2. 2
    mark with one's signature wordnet
  3. 3
    To write something in one's own handwriting. transitive
Adjective
  1. 1
    Written in the author’s own handwriting. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Made by the artist himself or herself; authentic. not-comparable

    "Schiff […] believes most of the drawings are autograph."

Example

More examples

"If I had noticed her, I would have got her autograph."

Etymology

From Latin autographum, in turn from Ancient Greek αὐτόγραφον (autógraphon, “a writing in one’s own hand”). Equivalent to auto- + -graph.

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