autograph
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noun
/ˈɔːtəɡrɑːf/
​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.
Collocations
verb + autograph
give somebody
sign
ask for
autograph + noun
book
hunter
autograph
/ˈɔːtəɡrɑːf/
verb (autographs, autographed, autographing)
​autograph something (of a famous person) to sign your name on something for somebody to keep
The whole team has autographed a football, which will be used as a prize.
Word Origin
early 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’.