Meanings
plural photographeresses
- rareA female photographer.
As your charming photographeress cannot explain by word what she wishes...
1998, Heinz K Henisch, Positive Pleasures: Early Photography and Humor2 more examples
Miss Ring has become a crack amateur photographeress, and recently favored her Oberlin friends with some beautiful "snap shots" of French peasant women...
1891, The Oberlin Review"The photographeress?" "The woman photographer of your firm." "She's not here now. She's off taking pictures of Southern coastal trees."
1975, E M Broner, Her MothersSynonyms: camerawoman, photographess
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA female photographer.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰéh₂os
- Proto-Hellenic*pʰáwos
- Ancient Greekφᾰ́ος (phắos)
- Ancient Greekφῶς (phôs)
- Ancient Greekφωτο- (phōto-)
- Englishphoto-
- Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
- Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
- Ancient Greekγράφω (gráphō)
- Englishphotograph
- Englishphotographer
- Englishphotographeress
From photographer + -ess.
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