TYPESETTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does typesetter mean? 

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

1. one who sets written material into type

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TYPESETTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One who sets written material into type

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

compositor; setter; typesetter; typographer

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

pressman; printer (someone whose occupation is printing)

Derivation:

typeset (set in type)

 Context examples 

He had never received a sign of the existence of one, and from absence of judgment in rejecting all he wrote it seemed plausible that editors were myths, manufactured and maintained by office boys, typesetters, and pressmen.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)