PHOTO
What does "PHOTO" mean?
A picture made by capturing light on a sensor or film; a photograph.
Meanings
- A photograph; an image recorded by a camera. She framed a photo of the whole family on the beach.
- To photograph someone or something. The magazine photoed the actor for its cover. informal
Did you know?
- 'Photograph' literally means 'drawing with light' from the Greek - and the oldest surviving one, Niepce's view from a window made around 1826, took hours of sunlight to expose.
Word origin
A clipping of 'photograph', from Greek 'phos/photos' (light) plus 'graphein' (to draw or write); the word means, literally, 'drawing with light'.
Remember it
PHOTO carries the Greek 'photos' for light - every photo is light caught and kept.
A little poem
One blink of the sun
pinned flat behind the glass-
a day that won't move.
haiku
Wordplay
- I told my camera a secret. It developed a problem keeping it - now everyone's seen the photo.
What it teaches
A photo keeps the light of a moment but never the moment - hold the difference gently.
Quick facts
What does PHOTO mean?
A picture made by capturing light on a sensor or film; a photograph.
Is PHOTO a valid word?
Yes — PHOTO is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is PHOTO?
PHOTO has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does PHOTO come from?
A clipping of 'photograph', from Greek 'phos/photos' (light) plus 'graphein' (to draw or write); the word means, literally, 'drawing with light'.
What can PHOTO teach us?
A photo keeps the light of a moment but never the moment - hold the difference gently.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.