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filmwork

filmwork noun: the craft of filmmaking.

Noun

filmwork (countable and uncountable, plural filmworks)

  1. (uncountable) The craft of filmmaking.
  2. (countable) A work in film.
    • Are you aware, by the way, that Santoul is quite well known in the entertainment world? His filmworks are playing in quite a few theaters […]1990 April, James Luceno, chapter 17, in Illegal Alien, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, →ISBN, part 4 (Downside Up), pages 220–221
    • Elsewhere, Phil Coy's Façade, a major new filmwork from the young British artist, takes audiences through contemporary glass architecture, contrasting architectural walkthroughs of nonexistent buildings with tracking shots over the facades of existing buildings.2010 June 18, Eleanor Morgan, “Whitstable Biennale: a new pearl among the art-world oysters”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

Forms of filmwork

pluralfilmworks

Origin of filmwork

From film + work.

Questions about filmwork

What does filmwork mean?
Filmwork means the craft of filmmaking.
What part of speech is filmwork?
Filmwork is a noun.
What is the plural of filmwork?
The plural of filmwork is filmworks.

Words near filmwork in the dictionary

  1. filmstrip
  2. filmstrips
  3. filmwatcher
  4. filmwatchers
  5. filmwise
  6. filmwork
  7. filmworks
  8. filmworthy
  9. filmwright
  10. filmwrights
  11. filmy

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