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film-maker

film-maker is the alternative spelling of filmmaker.

Meaning of filmmaker

Noun

filmmaker (plural filmmakers)

  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.2007 March 11, Erik Piepenburg, “Reflections on Life as a Shaker-Upper”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021
    Synonyms:
    moviemaker

Forms of film-maker

pluralfilm-makers

Questions about film-maker

What is film-maker the alternative spelling of?
Film-maker is the alternative spelling of filmmaker.

Words near film-maker in the dictionary

  1. film tourism
  2. film-craft
  3. film-crafts
  4. film-goer
  5. film-goers
  6. film-maker
  7. film-makers
  8. film-set
  9. film-sets
  10. filmable
  11. filmaholic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: film-maker (page history and authors); filmmaker (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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