cameraperson

noun

cam·​era·​per·​son ˈkam-rə-ˌpər-sᵊn 

ˈka-mə-rə-

variants or camera person

plural camerapeople ˈkam-rə-ˌpē-pəl 

ˈka-mə-rə-

or camera people also camerapersons or camera persons

: a person who operates a camera (as for motion pictures or television) : a cameraman or camerawoman

Examples of cameraperson in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Near the end of the video, the unseen cameraperson flips the notebook to a page containing a diagram of the church and stabs the diagram with a knife. —Chad De Guzman, Time, 28 Aug. 2025

At other points in the 102-second video, Hill asked the cameraperson to stop filming, placed an orange traffic cone on his head, and posed in the middle of the street. —Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2025

One of his first gigs was actually as a cameraperson and one of several editors on Woodstock, the lodestar of all modern concert films. —Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 21 May 2025

Subsequent images showed the session getting hilariously more chaotic as the cameraperson snapped away. —Jen Juneau, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1903, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for cameraperson

• businessperson
• chairperson
• layperson
• salesperson
• person
• worsen