typesetter

[tahyp-set-er]

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noun

a person who sets or composes type; compositor.
a typesetting machine.

Origin of typesetter

First recorded in 1825–35; type + setter

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Related Words for typesetter

composer, printer, pressroom, printery, typesetter

Examples from the Web for typesetter

Historical Examples of typesetter

The name of the typesetter who set up the first word of freedom was Potemkin.
Eyes Like the Sea
Mr Jkai
Is this the dwelling of Christian Lebrenn, a typesetter by trade?
The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer
Eugne Sue
This machine is a type-casting machine as well as a typesetter.
Stories of Inventors
Russell Doubleday
It looks like an exaggeration or as if the typesetter had slipped in several extra ciphers by mistake, does it not?
The Wonder Book of Knowledge
Various
To his nephew, Sam Moffett, visiting him one day, he declared that it would take ten men to count the profits from the typesetter.
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete
Albert Bigelow Paine

British Dictionary definitions for typesetter

typesetter

noun

a person who sets type; compositor
a typesetting machine

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