Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for private press. Search instead for private lessons.

private press

British  

noun

  1. a printing establishment primarily run as a pastime

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

“He was convinced that she was a lost private press folk artist from the ’60s or ’70s.”

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2024

This is a private press label that Pachuco Volume 1 is on: Billionaire Records.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2022

In a select, private press demo and interview event held following the game’s reveal, producer Yoshio Sakamoto offered an explanation.

From Slate • Jun. 17, 2021

Only a few years later, as if to provide an example of my newfound typographical interests, I became a private press publisher myself.

From The Guardian • Nov. 6, 2012

Lytton had a private press at which some of his correspondent's letters were printed, and Fitzjames warns him against the wiles of editors of newspapers in a land where subordinates are not inaccessible to corruption.

From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember "private press" for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com