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compositress

compositress is the female equivalent of compositor.

Meaning of compositor

Noun

compositor (plural compositors)

  1. A person who sets type; a typesetter.
    • Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC
  2. One who, or that which, composes or sets in order.
    • I work as an image compositor.
  3. A system that puts images together in a buffer (such as individual windows on a desktop) to generate a final display image.

Forms of compositress

pluralcompositresses
alternative formcompositoress

Origin of compositress

From compositor + -ess.

Questions about compositress

What is compositress the female equivalent of?
Compositress is the female equivalent of compositor.

Words near compositress in the dictionary

  1. compositoresses
  2. compositorial
  3. compositorially
  4. compositors
  5. compositous
  6. compositress
  7. compositresses
  8. compositries
  9. compositry
  10. compositum
  11. compositums

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Adapted from Wiktionary: compositress (page history and authors); compositor (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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