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paparazzi

UK/ˌpæ.pəˈɹæt.si/US/ˌpɑ.pəˈɹɑt.si/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,389 of 15,258leans spoken

The paparazzi are photographers who chase celebrities for candid shots. Chased by paparazzi, the paparazzi waited, paparazzi photographs.

The word is plural and the singular is paparazzo, which almost nobody uses. It comes from a character in Fellini's La Dolce Vita — a news photographer named Paparazzo — so a whole trade is named after one invented person.

Federico Fellini · Public domain

Definitions of paparazzi

  1. 1nounpaparazziPhotographers who chase celebrities for candid shots.B2+

    “The paparazzi waited outside the hotel to photograph the famous couple.”

paparazzi is photographers.

Where it comes from

Italian paparazzi is the plural of paparazzo, from the name of a photographer in Fellini's film La Dolce Vita in 1960.

  1. Italian

    paparazzi

  2. English, today

    paparazzi

From Italian paparazzi, plural of paparazzo.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in News & Communication

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paparazzi in the wild

  • The photographs taken by paparazzi are commonly sold to tabloids, gossip magazines, and websites, where they are published to attract attention and increase sales.

    Paparazzi

  • Written by Cyrus, Devrim Karaoglu and its producers Antonina Armato and Tim James, song's lyrics describe paparazzi and their extensive personal privacy invasions.

    Fly on the Wall (song)

  • The "Thriller"-inspired video takes place mainly in a parking garage in which Cyrus encounters and attempts to escape the paparazzi.

    Fly on the Wall (song)

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.