Noun
autograph (plural autographs)
- A person’s own handwriting, especially the signature of a famous or admired person.
Some autograph-hunters were pestering the players after the game.
- (by extension, colloquial) A person's signature used as a mark of formal approval.
If you could just put your autograph on the ol’ contract, please…
- A manuscript in the author’s handwriting.
Translations
signature
- Afrikaans: handtekening
- Albanian: autograf (sq)
- Arabic: تَوْقِيع (ar) m (tawqīʕ)
- Armenian: ինքնագիր (hy) (inkʻnagir)
- Belarusian: аўтограф m (aŭtóhraf)
- Bengali: দস্তখত (bn) (dostokhot), অটোগ্রাফ (bn) (oṭōgraph)
- Bulgarian: автогра́ф (bg) m (avtográf)
- Catalan: autògraf (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 簽名/签名 (zh) (qiānmíng)
- Crimean Tatar: avtograf
- Czech: autogram (cs) m, podpis (cs) m
- Danish: autograf (da) c
- Dutch: handtekening (nl)
- Esperanto: aŭtografo
- Estonian: autogramm (et)
- Finnish: nimikirjoitus (fi)
- French: signature (fr) f, autographe (fr) m
- Georgian: ავტოგრაფი (avṭograpi)
- German: Autogramm (de) n, Unterschrift (de) f
- Greek: αυτόγραφο (el) n (aftógrafo)
- Hebrew: חתימה (he) f (khatima)
- Hindi: ऑटोग्राफ m (ŏṭogrāph), दस्तख़त m (dastaxat)
- Hungarian: saját kezű aláírás, autogram (hu)
- Icelandic: eiginhandaráritun (is) f
- Indonesian: tanda tangan (id)
- Italian: autografo (it) m
- Japanese: サイン (ja) (sain), 自署 (ja) c (jisho), 肉筆 (ja) (nikuhitsu)
- Kazakh: қолтаңба (qoltañba)
- Korean: 사인 (ko) (sain)
- Latvian: autogrāfs m
- Lithuanian: autografas m
- Macedonian: автограм m (avtogram)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: autograf m
- Nynorsk: autograf m
- Persian: امضاء (fa) (emzâ')
- Polish: autograf (pl) m
- Portuguese: autógrafo (pt) m
- Romanian: autograf (ro)
- Russian: авто́граф (ru) m (avtógraf)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: аутограм m
- Roman: autogram (sh) m
- Slovak: autogram m
- Slovene: avtogram m, podpis (sl) m
- Spanish: firma (es) f, autógrafo (es) m
- Swedish: autograf (sv) c
- Turkish: imza (tr)
- Ukrainian: автограф (uk) m (avtohraf)
- Urdu: آٹوگِراف m (āṭogirāf), دستخط m
- Yiddish: אויטאָגראַפֿ m (oytograf)
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Adjective
autograph (not comparable)
- Written in the author’s own handwriting.
- (art) Made by the artist himself or herself; authentic.
- 1979, Nancy L Pressly, The Fuseli Circle in Rome, Yale Center for British Art, p. 37:
- Schiff […] believes most of the drawings are autograph.
1992, Malise Forbes Adam, Mary Mauchline, edited by Wendy Wassyng Roworth, Angelica Kauffman, Reaktion Books, published 1992, page 116:Not surprisingly, he attributed to Kauffman two important works that are no longer accepted as autograph.
Verb
autograph (third-person singular simple present autographs, present participle autographing, simple past and past participle autographed)
- (transitive) To sign, or write one’s name or signature on a book etc
- (transitive) To write something in one's own handwriting
Translations
to sign, or write one’s name or signature on a book
to write something in one’s own handwriting