Other forms: photographs, photographed, photographing
To photograph something is to capture a picture of it with a camera. Press the button, and the light does the rest.
The noun and the verb share a spelling but shift their stress, and the shortened form photo is far commoner in speech. There is a useful intransitive use, since somebody who photographs well looks good in pictures. The parts of the word mean light-writing, from Greek, which is exactly what the process does. The person is a photographer, the art is photography, and the adjective is photographic.
1verbphotographTo take a picture of something with a camera.
“He photographed the whole building from across the road.”
2nounpictureA picture made with a camera.
“There was an old photograph on the mantelpiece.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
From photo- + -graph. From photo + graph.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA