autograph
noun/ˈɔːtəɡrɑːf/
/ˈɔːtəɡræf/
- a famous person’s signature (= their name written by them), especially when somebody asks them to write it for them to keep
- Could I have your autograph?
- She was surrounded by autograph hunters outside the theatre.
- He signed his autograph for the little girl.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + autograph- give somebody
- sign
- ask for
- …
- book
- hunter
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French autographe or late Latin autographum, from Greek autographon, neuter of autographos ‘written with one's own hand’, from autos ‘self’ + graphos ‘written’.
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