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cameraman

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈkæm(ə)ɹəˌmæn//

Somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera.

noun

  1. 1

    Somebody who operates a movie camera or television camera.

    ‘We were getting a grand shot of a charging rhino when the cameraman got scared and bolted. The fathead!’

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-der. Proto-Indo-Iranian *kmáratider. Proto-Iranian *kamarāder. Ancient Greek καμάρᾱ (kamárā)bor. Latin cameralbor. English camera Proto-Indo-European *mon- Proto-Germanic *mann- Proto-West Germanic *mann Old English mann Middle English man Middle English -man English -man English cameraman From camera + -man.

Forms

plural
cameramen
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).