noun
Meaning 1
A producer or director of films/movies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
filmmaker
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noun
Meaning 2
a producer of motion pictures
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: film maker, film producer, movie maker
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: producer
Narrower terms: auteur, film director, director, New Waver, Allen, Woody Allen, Allen Stewart Konigsberg, Bertolucci, Bernardo Bertolucci, Capra, Frank Capra, Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Cocteau, Jean Cocteau, Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, DeMille, Cecil B. DeMille, Cecil Blount DeMille, De Sica, Vittorio De Sica, Disney, Walt Disney, Walter Elias Disney, Eisenstein, Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein, Fellini, Federico Fellini, Ford, John Ford, Godard, Jean Luc Godard, Goldwyn, Sam Goldwyn, Samuel Goldwyn, Griffith, D. W. Griffith, David Lewelyn Wark Griffith, Hughes, Howard Hughes, Howard Robard Hughes, Huston, John Huston, Jewison, Norman Jewison, Kieslowski, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Korda, Sir Alexander Korda, Sandor Kellner, Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick, Kurosawa, Akira Kurosawa, Lee, Spike Lee, Shelton Jackson Lee, Lubitsch, Ernst Lubitsch, Lucas, George Lucas, Mayer, Louis B. Mayer, Louis Burt Mayer, Pollack, Sydney Pollack, Redford, Robert Redford, Charles Robert Redford, Russell, Ken Russell, Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell, Scorsese, Martin Scorsese, Selznick, David O. Selznick, David Oliver Selznick, Sennett, Mack Sennett, Spielberg, Steven Spielberg, Stevens, George Stevens, Stone, Oliver Stone, Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Jerome Tarantino, Tarkovsky, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky, Tati, Jacques Tati, Jacques Tatischeff, Truffaut, Francois Truffaut, Visconti, Luchino Visconti, Don Luchino Visconti Conte di Modrone, von Sternberg, Josef von Sternberg, Wajda, Andrzej Wajda, Warner, Charles Dudley Warner, Welles, Orson Welles, George Orson Welles, Wilder, Billy Wilder, Samuel Wilder, Wyler, William Wyler, Zanuck, Darryl Zanuck, Darryl Francis Zanuck, Zinnemann, Fred Zinnemann
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pel-der. Proto-Germanic *felma- Proto-Germanic *filmīn- Old English filmen Middle English filme English film Proto-Germanic *makaz Proto-West Germanic *mak Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną 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 filmmaker From film + maker.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Catalan: cineasta — producer or director of films / movies
- Chinese Mandarin: 製片人 /制片人 (zhìpiànrén) — producer or director of films / movies
- Danish: filmmager — producer or director of films / movies
- Dutch: filmmaker — producer or director of films / movies
- Estonian: filmitegija — producer or director of films / movies
- Finnish: elokuvantekijä — producer or director of films / movies
- French: cinéaste — producer or director of films / movies
- Galician: cineasta — producer or director of films / movies
- German: Filmemacher — producer or director of films / movies
- German: Filmemacherin — producer or director of films / movies
- German: Filmer — producer or director of films / movies
- German: Filmerin — producer or director of films / movies
- German: Filmschaffender — producer or director of films / movies
- German: Filmschaffende — producer or director of films / movies
- Japanese: 映画製作者 (eiga seisakusha) — producer or director of films / movies
- Norwegian Bokmål: filmskaper — producer or director of films / movies
- Norwegian Bokmål: filmmaker — producer or director of films / movies
- Norwegian Nynorsk: filmskapar — producer or director of films / movies
- Persian: فیلمساز (filmsâz) — producer or director of films / movies
- Polish: filmowiec — producer or director of films / movies
- Portuguese: cineasta — producer or director of films / movies
- Romanian: cineast — producer or director of films / movies
- Romanian: cineastă — producer or director of films / movies
- Russian: созда́тель кинофи́льма (sozdátelʹ kinofílʹma) — producer or director of films / movies
- Russian: кинорежиссёр (kinorežissjór) — producer or director of films / movies
- Russian: кинематографи́ст (kinematografíst) — producer or director of films / movies
- Russian: кино́шник (kinóšnik) — producer or director of films / movies
- Northern Sami: filbmadahkki — producer or director of films / movies
- Skolt-Sami: fiʹlmmraajji — producer or director of films / movies
- Slovak: filmár — producer or director of films / movies
- Slovak: filmárka — producer or director of films / movies
- Spanish: cineasta — producer or director of films / movies
- Swahili: mtunga filamu — producer or director of films / movies
- Swedish: filmskapare — producer or director of films / movies
- Swedish: filmmakare — producer or director of films / movies
- Thai: ผู้ผลิตภาพยนตร์ — producer or director of films / movies
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