PUBLISHER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A firm in the publishing business

Synonyms:

publisher; publishing company; publishing firm; publishing house

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("publisher" is a kind of...):

business firm; firm; house (the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "publisher"):

newspaper; newspaper publisher; paper (a business firm that publishes newspapers)

magazine; magazine publisher (a business firm that publishes magazines)

Derivation:

publish (prepare and issue for public distribution or sale)

publish (put into print)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("publisher" is a kind of...):

professional; professional person (a person engaged in one of the learned professions)

Instance hyponyms:

Baedeker; Karl Baedeker (German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859))

Bartlett; John Bartlett (United States publisher and editor who compiled a book of familiar quotations (1820-1905))

Henry Oscar Houghton; Houghton (United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895))

Henry Luce; Henry Robinson Luce; Luce (United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967))

Keith Rupert Murdoch; Murdoch; Rupert Murdoch (United States publisher (born in Australia in 1931))

Adolph Simon Ochs; Ochs (United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935))

Derivation:

publish (prepare and issue for public distribution or sale)

publish (put into print)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The proprietor of a newspaper

Synonyms:

newspaper publisher; publisher

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("publisher" is a kind of...):

owner; proprietor ((law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "publisher"):

press lord (a powerful newspaper proprietor)

Instance hyponyms:

1st Baron Beaverbrook; Beaverbrook; William Maxwell Aitken (British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964))

Alfred Charles William Harmsworth; Harmsworth; Viscount Northcliffe (British newspaper publisher (1865-1922))

Benjamin Harris; Harris (publisher of the first newspaper printed in America (1673-1713))

Hearst; William Randolph Hearst (United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951))

Joseph Pulitzer; Pulitzer (United States newspaper publisher (born in Hungary) who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911))

James Edmund Scripps; Scripps (United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908))

Edward Wyllis Scripps; Scripps (United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926))

Derivation:

publish (prepare and issue for public distribution or sale)

publish (put into print)

Credits

Context examples:

A unique code used by publishers in the identification and exchange of the content of a digital object, such as a journal article, web document, or other item of intellectual property.

(Digital Object Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

Having copied her novel for the fourth time, read it to all her confidential friends, and submitted it with fear and trembling to three publishers, she at last disposed of it, on condition that she would cut it down one third, and omit all the parts which she particularly admired.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

After it had been refused by a number of magazines, he had taken Brissenden's rejected advice and started, "The Shame of the Sun" on the round of publishers.