typesetter
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typesetter
Where it comes from
From type + setter.
noun typesetters
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A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.
It’s hard to say who has the longest name in history, but a Philadelphia-area typesetter from the early 1900s chose a very long name for himself. Known, among other things, as Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590, Sr., his name has been published in many different forms since.
Similar: compositor
- A machine that combines type in the correct order for printing.
Translations
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noun person
| Español | cajista |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 手民 shǒumín, 排字工人 |
| Português | compositor, tipógrafo |
| Français | typographe, typote, typo, compositeur-typographe |
| Deutsch | Schriftsetzer, Schriftsetzerin, Metteur |
| Ελληνικά | στοιχειοθέτης stoicheiothétis, τυπογράφος typográfos |
| Română | culegător, zețar, tipograf |
| Русский | набо́рщик nabórščik, печа́тник pečátnik, типо́граф tipógraf |
Talk about this word "typesetter." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/typesetter. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. typesetter. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/typesetter "typesetter." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/typesetter.Cite this
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