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moviemaker en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English movie Proto-West Germanic *mak Proto-West Germanic *-ōn Proto-West Germanic *makōn? Old English macian Middle English maken Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere Middle English maker English maker English moviemaker From movie + maker.

Meanings

1. A person who makes movies as a profession; a cinematographer.
   • Part of why Mr. Dick’s work appeals so much to moviemakers is his pulpish sensibility. 2007 May 6, Charles Mcgrath, “A Prince of Pulp, Legit at Last”, in The New York Times:
   • The outrage that greeted The Silence—howls of bishops, scissorings of censors, even feces-smeared toilet paper sent to the director—denoted public horror at a morally serious moviemaker surrendering (it seemed) […] 2010, Maaret Koskinen, Ingmar Bergman's The Silence, →ISBN:

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