AUTOGRAPH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does autograph mean? 

• AUTOGRAPH (noun)
  The noun AUTOGRAPH has 2 senses:

1. something written by one's own hand

2. a person's own signature

  Familiarity information: AUTOGRAPH used as a noun is rare.

• AUTOGRAPH (verb)
  The verb AUTOGRAPH has 1 sense:

1. mark with one's signature

  Familiarity information: AUTOGRAPH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUTOGRAPH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something written by one's own hand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("autograph" is a kind of...):

piece of writing; writing; written material (the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "autograph"):

holograph; manuscript (handwritten book or document)

Derivation:

autograph (mark with one's signature)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person's own signature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

autograph; John Hancock

Hypernyms ("autograph" is a kind of...):

signature (your name written in your own handwriting)

Derivation:

autograph (mark with one's signature)

• AUTOGRAPH (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they autograph    ... he / she / it autographs   
Past simple: autographed   
Past participle: autographed   
-ing form: autographing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mark with one's signature

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

autograph; inscribe

Context example:

The author autographed his book

Hypernyms (to "autograph" is one way to...):

sign (be engaged by a written agreement)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

autograph (a person's own signature)

autograph (something written by one's own hand)

 Context examples 

“Thank you, sir,” he said at last, returning both; “it’s a very interesting autograph.”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Capricorn rules historical material, such as estate jewelry, landmark buildings, historical autographs, fossils, and other valuable items saved or unearthed from the past.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There were a dozen requests for autographs—he knew them at sight; there were professional begging letters; and there were letters from cranks, ranging from the man with a working model of perpetual motion, and the man who demonstrated that the surface of the earth was the inside of a hollow sphere, to the man seeking financial aid to purchase the Peninsula of Lower California for the purpose of communist colonization.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The famous Smith-Mortimer succession case comes also within this period, and so does the tracking and arrest of Huret, the Boulevard assassin—an exploit which won for Holmes an autograph letter of thanks from the French President and the Order of the Legion of Honour.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But there it is; quite in your way: a murderer’s autograph.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

If you are an architect, historian, a dealer in rare letters and autographs, a museum curator, or archeologist, this month will find you winning your glory and making exceptional progress.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)