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cinematography

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˌsɪn.ə.məˈtɒɡ.ɹə.fiː//

The art, process, or job of filming movies.

noun

  1. 1

    The art, process, or job of filming movies.

  2. 2

    Motion picture photography.

Etymology

From cinematograph + -y. Compare French cinématographie. Possibly analysable as cinemato- + -graphy.

Forms

plural
cinematographies
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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).