filmmaker

nounattested in dialogue

United States

A producer or director of films/movies.

noun

1
A producer or director of films/movies.
I spent a couple of months all by myself building a set and had my filmmaker friends, nonactors, play the parts.
Such prissy mollycoddlings of audience expectations were shortly to come under heavyweight siege from a variety of filmmakers in the 1950s – not least the aforementioned Otto Preminger.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pel-der. Proto-Germanic *felma- Proto-Germanic *filmīn- Old English filmen Middle English filme English film Proto-Germanic *makaz Proto-West Germanic *mak Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-West Germanic *-ōn Proto-West Germanic *makōn? Old English macian Middle English maken Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere Middle English maker English maker English filmmaker From film + maker.

Forms

plural: filmmakers

film · A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous…filmed · Covered with a film.filming · The action of the verb to film.

filmmaker · A producer or director of films/movies.

filter · A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or…Filter · A surname from German.filth · Dirt; foul matter; that which soils or defiles.

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