LETTERPRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does letterpress mean? 

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

1. printing from a plate with raised characters

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LETTERPRESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Printing from a plate with raised characters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

letterpress; relief printing

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

printing; printing process (reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication)

 Context examples 

I returned to my book—Bewick's History of British Birds: the letterpress thereof I cared little for, generally speaking; and yet there were certain introductory pages that, child as I was, I could not pass quite as a blank.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)