typesetter en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From type + setter.
Meanings
-
(historical) A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.
My writing all took place over weekends, and because I only lived about ten miles away, Peter would hot-foot it to my home on a Monday morning to collect a large parcel of hand-typed sheets of copy, for despatch to the typesetters.
2023 January 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47: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:
- (historical) A machine that combines type in the correct order for printing.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| typesetters | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
teletypesetter · phototypesetter
Synonyms
compositor (person who sets type)
Translations (53)
da håndsætter (person) · ro culegător (person) · cmn 手民 (person) · pt compositor (person) · sv sättare (person) · sv handsättare (person) · fr typographe (person) · ms pengatur huruf (person) · da typograf (person) · fr compositeur-typographe (person) · sh slovoslagač (person) · fi latomakone (machine) · sh словослагач (person) · az düzücü (person) · sv typograf (person) · fr typo (person) · az mürəttib (person) · hu betűszedő (person) · es cajista (person) · pl zecerka (person) · gd clòdhadair (person) · fr typote (person) · pl składaczka (person) · dsb pismostajaŕka (person) · ru набо́рщик (person) · pt tipógrafo (person) · de Schriftsetzerin (person) · bg словослагател (person) · ga cló-eagraí (person) · el στοιχειοθέτης (person) · nl zetter (person) · ru типо́граф (person) · ru печа́тник (person) · de Schriftsetzer (person) · ro zețar (person) · pl składacz (person) · hu szedő (person) · fi latoja (person) · hsb pismikistajer (person) · bg линотип (machine) · de Metteur (person) · dsb pismostajaŕ (person) · el τυπογράφος (person) · mi kaiwhakanoho reta (person) · da sætter (person) · nl letterzetter (person) · ro tipograf (person) · ga clóchuradóir (person) · az naborçu (person) · pl zecer (person) · hsb pismikistajerka (person) · cmn 排字工人 (person) · cs sazeč (person)