Meaning

2 senses
  1. (historical)A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.

    Schriftsetzer, Schriftsetzerin, Metteur

    набо́рщикnabórščik, печа́тникpečátnik, типо́графtipógraf

    one who sets written material into type

  2. (historical)A machine that combines type in the correct order for printing.

Translations

6 languages
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Origin

From type + setter.

From type + setter.

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Forms

plural: typesetters
Singulartypesetter
Pluraltypesetters

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
person who sets type:compositor
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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