autograph
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈɔːtəˌɡræf/
:
autógrafo
- There's my autograph.
- sign autographs
I practiced my autograph for years before anybody wanted it.
- I practiced my autograph for years before anybody wanted it.
- Johnson, we have a sample of their actual autographs down at the station, and that doesn't look anything like that.
- My sister's standing by the steps where the television set is and hold on, and she wanted an autograph from LeBron.
- And then obviously you get a lot of, a lot of the players like refuse to do autographs for people.
- There is definitely a generational age somewhere between where people ask me for either a selfie or an autograph.
- But I will say the very first page in my autograph book was from Joe Well and it says, Dear Fax, that's me.
Examples
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Hey, let me get your autograph.
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Can we get your autograph?
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I will give you my autograph with both hands, OK?
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Five years later, they returned for another autograph session and were kind enough to autograph their cards for me.
Academic text (1998) -
- Can I have your autograph?
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Will you give me your autograph?
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I was going to go in, but a young lady came up to me, asked me for my autograph.
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Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife came to Columbus for a book autograph session in 1988.
Academic text (1998) -
I'm going to get an autograph from Angelica.
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I would love to have yourautograph after the show.
Synonyms
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1.2
A person's name written by hand to show who they are or that they agree
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4.5
A person's signature written when asked to sign
Compounds
How Original
Surface Forms
Morphology
autograph = auto + graph
The word is historically built from the combining forms 'auto-' and 'graph', but the modern sense 'a person's signature' is lexicalized and not directly guessable from the parts.
Etymology
The word autograph comes from the parts auto- 'self' and -graph 'write', the same auto- you see in automatic and the -graph in photograph. So an autograph is a person's own writing, their signature, often given to a fan or kept as a memory.