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photographeress

photographeress noun: a female photographer.

Noun

photographeress (plural photographeresses)

  1. (rare) A female photographer.
    • Miss Ring has become a crack amateur photographeress, and recently favored her Oberlin friends with some beautiful "snap shots" of French peasant women...1891, The Oberlin Review
    • "The photographeress?" "The woman photographer of your firm." "She's not here now. She's off taking pictures of Southern coastal trees."1975, E M Broner, Her Mothers

Synonyms of photographeress

Forms of photographeress

pluralphotographeresses

Origin of photographeress

From photographer + -ess.

Questions about photographeress

What does photographeress mean?
Photographeress means a female photographer.
What part of speech is photographeress?
Photographeress is a noun.
What is the plural of photographeress?
The plural of photographeress is photographeresses.

Words near photographeress in the dictionary

  1. photographable
  2. photographed
  3. photographee
  4. photographees
  5. photographer
  6. photographeress
  7. photographeresses
  8. photographers
  9. photographess
  10. photographesses
  11. photographette

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