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camera-man

camera-man is the alternative form of cameraman.

Meaning of cameraman

Noun

cameraman (plural cameramen)

  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!’1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 24
    Synonyms:
    camera operator, cameraperson

Forms of camera-man

pluralcamera-men

Questions about camera-man

What is camera-man the alternative form of?
Camera-man is the alternative form of cameraman.

Words near camera-man in the dictionary

  1. camera traps
  2. camera worker
  3. camera workers
  4. camera-fright
  5. camera-like
  6. camera-man
  7. Camera-Marugo-Cohen syndrome
  8. camera-men
  9. camera-ready
  10. camera-shy
  11. camera-worker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: camera-man (page history and authors); cameraman (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.

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