COMPOSITOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compositor mean? 

• COMPOSITOR (noun)
  The noun COMPOSITOR has 1 sense:

1. one who sets written material into type

  Familiarity information: COMPOSITOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPOSITOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One who sets written material into type

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

compositor; setter; typesetter; typographer

Hypernyms ("compositor" is a kind of...):

pressman; printer (someone whose occupation is printing)

Derivation:

compose (put together out of existing material)

 Context examples 

Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of analysis and deduction!

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)