Meaning

3 senses
  1. A person or (especially) a company who publishes, especially books.

    Herausgeber, Herausgeberin, Verlag

    изда́тельizdátelʹ, изда́тельницаizdátelʹnica, изда́тельствоizdátelʹstvo

    видаве́цьvydavécʹ, видавни́кvydavnýk, видавни́цяvydavnýcja

    a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music

  2. A system or component that allows other components (subscribers) to receive notifications of something, such as an event.

  3. A preacher who is a Jehovah's Witness.

Examples

52 sentences
  1. That publisher specialises in children's books.

    ruЭтот издатель специализируется на книгах для детей. — marafon

    deDieser Verlag ist Spezialist für Kinderbücher. — Manfredo

  2. The editor and the publisher are both my cousins.

    deSowohl der Redakteur als auch der Verleger sind meine Cousins. — xtofu80

  3. Will you please order a copy of the book from the publisher?

  4. I'm trying to find a publisher for the book I just finished writing.

    ruЯ пытаюсь найти издателя для книги, которую я только что дописал. — marafon

  5. We need a publisher first.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
one who publishes, especially books — see also publishing house:
Русский
By meaning 1
one who publishes, especially books — see also publishing house:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
one who publishes, especially books — see also publishing house:

Forms

plural: publishers
Singularpublisher
Pluralpublishers

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a firm in the publishing business:publishing housepublishing firmpublishing company
  • the proprietor of a newspaper:newspaper publisher

Word family

13 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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