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One who sets written material into type
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typographer
Word definitions for typographer in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Typographer \Ty*pog"ra*pher\ (?; 277), n. [Cf. F. typographe. See Typography .] A printer. --T. Warton.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a person skilled in typography 2 a typewriter 3 a kind of bark beetle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The strong market capacity of the typographers is now undermined, and they are likely to suffer a fall in life-chances.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The typographer , America's first typewriter , was invented and made by William Austin Burt . It was a mechanical device that was worked by hand to make the letter print on paper. The working model provided by Burt for his 1829 patent was destroyed in the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. one who sets written material into type [syn: compositor , typesetter , setter ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"printer," 1640s, from typography + -er (1).
Usage examples of typographer.
Corsicans who formed the papal bodyguard, German typographers, French perfumers and glovemakers, Teutonic bakers, Spanish booksellers, Lombard carpenters from the Campo Marzio, Dalmatian boatbuilders, Greek copyists, Portuguese trunkmakers from the Via dei Baullari, goldsmiths from beside San Giorgio.
But the cigarmakers and typographers were only two of the thirty-odd national unions, and the general attitude toward women was one of exclusion.