moviemaker
/mˈuvˌimˌeɪkɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who makes movies as a profession; a cinematographer.
Example Sentences
- "Part of why Mr. Dick’s work appeals so much to moviemakers is his pulpish sensibility."
- "The outrage that greeted The Silence—howls of bishops, scissorings of censors, even feces-smeared toilet paper sent to the director—denoted public horror at a morally serious moviemaker surrendering (it seemed) […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree English movie Proto-West Germanic *mak 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 moviemaker From movie + maker.