a signature, especially that of a celebrity written as a memento for an admirer (尤指名人的)亲笔签名 fans surged around the car asking for autographs. 影迷们围住轿车索要签名。
a manuscript or musical score in an author's or musician's own handwriting (作家或音乐家的)手稿;真迹 ■[mass noun]a person's handwriting 手迹
verb
[with obj.](of a celebrity) write one's signature on (something); sign (名人)签名 the whole team autographed a shirt for him. 全体队员都在一件衬衫上为他签了名。 [as adj. autographed]an autographed photo. 签名照。
adjective
written in the author's own handwriting 亲笔的 an autograph manuscript. 亲笔手稿。 ■(of a painting or sculpture) done by the artist himself, not by a copier (画,雕塑)真迹的
派生 autographic adjective 语源
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'