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PRESSMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media
Synonyms:
correspondent; newspaperman; newspaperwoman; newswriter; pressman
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pressman" is a kind of...):
journalist (a writer for newspapers and magazines)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pressman"):
foreign correspondent (a journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a foreign country for publication or broadcast)
war correspondent (a journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a combat zone or place of battle for publication or broadcast)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone whose occupation is printing
Synonyms:
pressman; printer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("pressman" is a kind of...):
skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pressman"):
compositor; setter; typesetter; typographer (one who sets written material into type)
proofreader; reader (someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections)
Instance hyponyms:
Bodoni; Gianbattista Bodoni (Italian printer who designed the Bodoni font (1740-1813))
Bradford; William Bradford (United States printer (born in England) whose press produced the first American prayer book and the New York City's first newspaper (1663-1752))
Caxton; William Caxton (English printer who in 1474 printed the first book in English (1422-1491))
Benjamin Franklin; Franklin (printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790))
Frederic Goudy; Frederic William Goudy; Goudy (United States printer noted for designing typefaces (1865-1947))
Gutenberg; Johann Gutenberg; Johannes Gutenberg (German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468))
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