photograph

1. 1.

   a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format

   Synonymsphotoexposurepicturepic

   Broaderrepresentation

   Narrowerbeefcakeblack and whiteblueprintcheesecakecloseupdaguerreotypeenlargementframeglossyheadshot

Other forms of photograph

plural

photographs·

past tense

photographed·

present participle

photographing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about photograph

What does photograph mean?

photograph means "record on photographic film". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in photograph?

photograph has 3 syllables: pho-to-graph. The stress falls on "pho". In IPA it is /ˈfoʊtəˌɡɹæf/.

What is another word for photograph?

Close synonyms include snap, shoot, photo, exposure, picture. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is photograph a common word?

photograph is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with photograph?

14 words rhyme with photograph. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.