camera

Other forms of camera

plural

camerae

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about camera

What does camera mean?

camera means "equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in camera?

camera has 3 syllables: cam-e-ra. The stress falls on "cam". In IPA it is /ˈkæmɚə/.

What is another word for camera?

Close synonyms include photographic camera, television camera, tv camera. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is camera a common word?

camera is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.