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typesetters

typesetters is the plural of typesetter.

Meaning of typesetter

Noun

typesetter (plural typesetters)

  1. (historical) 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.2015 June 29, Dan Lewis, “Why You Can’t Name Your Kid “Albin” (With a Different Spelling)”, in Now I Know, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2025
    Synonyms:
    compositor
  2. (historical) A machine that combines type in the correct order for printing.

Questions about typesetters

What is typesetters the plural of?
Typesetters is the plural of typesetter.

Words near typesetters in the dictionary

  1. typescripts
  2. typeset
  3. typesets
  4. typesettable
  5. typesetter
  6. typesetters
  7. typesetting
  8. typesettings
  9. typesite
  10. typesites
  11. typestate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: typesetters (page history and authors); typesetter (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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