camera operator

1. 1.

   a photographer who operates a movie camera

   Synonymscameramancinematographer

   Broaderphotographer

Questions about camera operator

What does camera operator mean?

camera operator means "a photographer who operates a movie camera".

What is another word for camera operator?

Close synonyms include cameraman, cinematographer. 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 operator a common word?

camera operator is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.