paparazzo

[ pah-puh-raht-soh; Italian pah-pah-raht-tsaw ]

/ ˌpɑ pəˈrɑt soʊ; Italian ˌpɑ pɑˈrɑt tsɔ /

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noun, plural pa·pa·raz·zi

[pah-puh-raht-see; Italian pah-pah-raht-tsee]. /ˌpɑ pəˈrɑt si; Italian ˌpɑ pɑˈrɑt tsi/.

a freelance photographer, especially one who takes candid pictures of celebrities for publication.

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Origin of paparazzo

First recorded in 1965–70; from Italian, from the surname of such a photographer in Federico Fellini's La dolce vita (1959), after the name of a hotelkeeper in George Gissing's By the Ionian Sea (1901), read by Fellini in an Italian translation at the time of the movie's production

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How to use paparazzo in a sentence

Paparazzi photos of Mrs. Knowles-Carter sporting the Bettie Page look were released.
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Mrs. Clooney has been followed around Athens during a three-day visit by a horde of paparazzi that number into the hundreds.
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A low point came when she was photographed by paparazzi crying in a Soho street after the break-up.
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But what is it like with no Penelope Cruz pouting in sheer red satin, without the massed paparazzi, and screaming publicists?
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British Dictionary definitions for paparazzo

paparazzo

/ (ˌpæpəˈrætsəʊ) /

noun plural -razzi (-ˈrætsiː)

a freelance photographer who specializes in candid camera shots of famous people and often invades their privacy to obtain such photographs

Word Origin for paparazzo

C20: from Italian

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