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photographer

/fəˈtɒɡ.ɹə.fə/ noun

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about photographer at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. Someone who takes photographs professionally.

Origin

From photograph + -er, from Ancient Greek φωτός (phōtós), genitive singular of φῶς (phôs, “light”) (fōs) and γράφω (gráphō, “I write”). By surface analysis, photograph + er.

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