paparazzi

pa·pa·raz·zo

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [pah-puh-raht-soh; Italian pah-pah-raht-tsaw]
- /ˌpɑ pəˈrɑt soʊ; Italian ˌpɑ pɑˈrɑt tsɔ/
- /ˌpæp.ərˈæt.si/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [pah-puh-raht-soh; Italian pah-pah-raht-tsaw]
- /ˌpɑ pəˈrɑt soʊ; Italian ˌpɑ pɑˈrɑt tsɔ/

Definitions of paparazzi word

noun plural paparazzi a freelance photographer, especially one who takes candid pictures of celebrities for publication. 1
noun plural paparazzi The paparazzi are photographers who follow famous people around, hoping to take interesting or shocking photographs of them that they can sell to a newspaper. 0

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Origin of paparazzi

First appearance:

before 1965

One of the 2% newest English words

1965-70; < 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 It translation at the time of the movie's producton

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Parts of speech for Paparazzi

noun

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exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Paparazzi

paparazzi popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 40% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

paparazzi usage trend in Literature

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