photographer
Pluralphotographers
- 1A person who takes photographs, especially as a profession.
The wedding photographer captured every important moment of the ceremony.
Several photographers crowded the red carpet to capture the arriving actors.
Note
Its parts spell out the craft: Greek phōs, "light", and graphō, "I write", joined in photograph and then given the agent suffix -er, so the word names one who writes with light. In news prose it often works like a title before a name, stacked with descriptors and no article: award-winning Sydney photographer Stephen Dupont. A genre word in front narrows it further, as in portrait, landscape or wedding photographer.
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Origin
Formed from 'photograph' plus the suffix '-er'. 'Photograph' itself comes from Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs, 'light') and γράφω (gráphō, 'I write').