printing press

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printing press

noun printing presses

  1. A mechanical device used for printing text or images repeatedly. Lenin constantly repeated that the 'so-called freedom of the Press' was a bourgeois deceit, like freedom of assembly and the right to form parties, since in a bourgeois society the common people had no printing presses and no rooms in which to assemble.
  2. metonymically Synonym of printing house (“an institutional or commercial publisher”).

    Similar: press, printworks, printing house

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noun machine for printing

Españolimprenta
한국어인쇄기 inswaegi
日本語印刷機 insatsuki
中文印刷機 /印刷机 yìnshuājī
हिन्दीछापेख़ाना chāpexānā, छापाख़ाना chāpāxānā, मुद्रणालय mudraṇālay, प्रेस pres
Portuguêsimprensa
Françaispresse, machine à imprimer
DeutschDruckerpresse
Italianotorchio
Ελληνικάπιεστήριο piestírio, τυπογραφικό πιεστήριο typografikó piestírio
Românăpresă de tipărit
Русскийпеча́тный стано́к pečátnyj stanók, печа́тная маши́на pečátnaja mašína, типогра́фский стано́к tipográfskij stanók, печа́тный пресс pečátnyj press
Tiếng Việtmáy in ép
العربيةآلَةُ طِبَاعَة ʔālatu ṭibāʕa, آلَةُ الطِّبَاعَة ʔālatu ṭ-ṭibāʕa

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@misc{printing_press_2026,
  title = {printing press},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/printing%20press},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}