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# cameraman

«cameraman» in Mova's school dictionary: **to operate a camera for films or television** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a cameraman, cameramen)

### meaning for a pupil

A person whose job is to operate a camera for films or television. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cameraman/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and media lessons, the cameraman films the news, sport or a film. A more neutral word for anyone doing the job is «camera operator», since many are women.

### examples

- The cameraman filmed the football match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cameraman/#x1)
- The reporter and her cameraman went to the flood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cameraman/#x2)
- The cameraman ran backwards to keep the runner in the shot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cameraman/#x3)
- Wave to the cameraman! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cameraman/#x4)
- My aunt works as a camera operator on wildlife films. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cameraman/#x5)

### note

Plural: cameramen. Gender-neutral: camera operator, camera person.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cameraman» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cameraman/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.