photographs
English meaning: Photographs
Definition
A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.
Example
“She kept a box of old photographs from her childhood.”
Another example: “Aerial photographs revealed the outline of an ancient settlement.”
Usage — When, Where & How
Plural of 'photograph'; the standard formal word for camera images ('old photographs', 'take photographs'). The clipped 'photos' is more casual. Common in everyday, journalistic and archival contexts.
Etymology & Origin
English — Origin & History
A 19th-century compound from Greek phos 'light' plus graphein 'to draw, write', coined around 1839.
Related Words
Common Collocations
- take photographs
- old photographs
- black-and-white photographs
- family photographs
- aerial photographs
- display photographs
Word Forms
photograph (n/v); photographs; photographed; photographing
Word Tools
Literary Heritage
“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”
/To thine own self be true/
“Be honest with yourself — and as naturally as night follows day, you will be unable to be false to others.”
“I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?”
/I'm nobody! Who are you?/
“I am nobody — and that quiet anonymity is more honest than the noise of public fame.”
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Language information
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