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typograph

typograph noun: a machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.

Noun

typograph (plural typographs)

  1. (historical) A machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.

Verb

typograph (third-person singular simple present typographs, present participle typographing, simple past and past participle typographed)

  1. To prepare type in such a machine.
    • It is the merest chance in the world whether you’re born a countess or a washerwoman. I’m neither one nor t’other; I’m only a mot who does a little typographing by way of variety.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861

Forms of typograph

Noun
pluraltypographs
Verb
third-person singular presenttypographs
present participletypographing
past participletypographed
pasttypographed

Origin of typograph

From type + -o- + -graph.

Questions about typograph

What does typograph mean?
Typograph means a machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.
What part of speech is typograph?
Typograph can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of typograph?
The plural of typograph is typographs.

Words near typograph in the dictionary

  1. typoes
  2. typoese
  3. typoglycemia
  4. typogram
  5. typograms
  6. typograph
  7. typographed
  8. typographer
  9. typographers
  10. typographia
  11. typographic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: typograph (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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