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filmist

filmist noun: a filmmaker.

Noun

filmist (plural filmists)

  1. A filmmaker.
    • Painters, composers, writers, choreographers, and even filmists are becoming less contentious. They are not concerned about attributing values to things. Their presentation of things is direct, without exterior significance.1995, Gregory Battcock, Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, page 197
  2. One who watches or studies films.
    • Devoted filmists are still jealous of the medium they admire, especially jealous because, even after films assumed a secure place as a medium of human expression, the arrival of the soundtrack made words into a major element of film, […]2000, Adams P. Sitney, Film Culture Reader, page 376
    • Using special guidelines outlined within this introduction, filmists relax, focus, and afterward discuss with others their reactions to magnify the value of film viewing.2009, Mary Banks Gregerson, The Cinematic Mirror for Psychology and Life Coaching, page 2

Forms of filmist

pluralfilmists

Origin of filmist

From film + -ist.

Questions about filmist

What does filmist mean?
Filmist means a filmmaker.
What part of speech is filmist?
Filmist is a noun.
What is the plural of filmist?
The plural of filmist is filmists.

Words near filmist in the dictionary

  1. filming out
  2. filmings
  3. filmise
  4. filmish
  5. filmising
  6. filmist
  7. filmists
  8. filmization
  9. filmizations
  10. filmize
  11. filmized

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