NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does newspaper publisher mean? 

• NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER (noun)
  The noun NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER has 2 senses:

1. the proprietor of a newspaper

2. a business firm that publishes newspapers

  Familiarity information: NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEWSPAPER PUBLISHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The proprietor of a newspaper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

newspaper publisher; publisher

Hypernyms ("newspaper publisher" is a kind of...):

owner; proprietor ((law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "newspaper publisher"):

press lord (a powerful newspaper proprietor)

Instance hyponyms:

1st Baron Beaverbrook; Beaverbrook; William Maxwell Aitken (British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964))

Alfred Charles William Harmsworth; Harmsworth; Viscount Northcliffe (British newspaper publisher (1865-1922))

Benjamin Harris; Harris (publisher of the first newspaper printed in America (1673-1713))

Hearst; William Randolph Hearst (United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951))

Joseph Pulitzer; Pulitzer (United States newspaper publisher (born in Hungary) who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911))

James Edmund Scripps; Scripps (United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908))

Edward Wyllis Scripps; Scripps (United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A business firm that publishes newspapers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

newspaper; newspaper publisher; paper

Context example:

Murdoch owns many newspapers

Hypernyms ("newspaper publisher" is a kind of...):

publisher; publishing company; publishing firm; publishing house (a firm in the publishing business)