Word.ws English Dictionary

apograph

/ˈapəɡɹɑːf/US/ˈæpəɡɹæf/

apograph noun: a copy or transcript of a manuscript (called the antigraph).

Noun

apograph (plural apographs)

  1. A copy or transcript of a manuscript (called the antigraph).
    • Moreover, this is not a holograph but an apograph, made by a scribe for the printers – you will note that both mayors write the same hand.1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
    • For both C and R, as well as for all other corpora of Slavic manuscripts, including I and L, it has always been tacitly assumed that the scribe did not merely copy, but verified the text of his apograph via his own pronunciation (externally or internally), or even wrote upon dictation.1989, William Veder, Texts of Closed Tradition – The Key to the Manuscript Heritage of Old Rus’

apograph meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

apograph in Tamil

அச்சு அசல் போன்ற நகல், பிரதி, மெய்ப்படி

apograph in Urdu

ہو بہو نقل

apograph in Bengali

মূল পাণ্ডুলিপির নকল, প্রতিলিপি

Forms of apograph

pluralapographs

Origin of apograph

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπόγραφον (apógraphon), from ἀπογράφω (apográphō, “I copy”), from ἀπό (apó, “off, away from”) + γράφω (gráphō, “write”).

Questions about apograph

What does apograph mean?
Apograph means a copy or transcript of a manuscript (called the antigraph).
What is apograph in Tamil?
Apograph in Tamil is அச்சு அசல் போன்ற நகல், பிரதி, மெய்ப்படி. See Apograph meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is apograph?
Apograph is a noun.
How do you pronounce apograph?
Apograph is pronounced /ˈapəɡɹɑːf/ (UK).
What is the plural of apograph?
The plural of apograph is apographs.

Words near apograph in the dictionary

  1. apoglobin
  2. apoglobins
  3. apogonid
  4. apogonids
  5. apogranite
  6. apograph
  7. apographal
  8. apographic
  9. apographs
  10. apogée
  11. apogées

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: apograph (page history and authors); apograph (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); apograph (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); apograph (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-apograph.wav.

Cite this entry: “apograph.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/apograph. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.