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Plural of pressman

irregular plural

The plural of pressman is pressmen.

Forms of pressman

Singularpressman
Pluralpressmen
Countablecountable

Pressmen in a sentence

  • "He hates pressmen, but I am in his confidence, for he knows that I will publish no more than he authorizes."1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed
  • Quite a crowd of townspeople turned out to see the train start, and several pressmen were busily engaged in taking notes and photographs.1949 November and December, “Notes and News: By Special Train to Llanfair”, in Railway Magazine, page 409
  • Several pressmen have nearly lost their lives, to say nothing of the seats of their trousers, from these creatures.1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed. From the entry seat

Meaning of pressman

  1. noun Someone who operates a printing press.
  2. noun A journalist or newspaper reporter.
  3. noun One who pressgangs people into naval service.

Full definition of pressman

Nouns ending in -man: plural -men

Questions about the plural of pressman

What is the plural of pressman?
The plural of pressman is pressmen.
Is pressman countable?
Pressman is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pressman (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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