NEWSPAPERMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does newspaperman mean? 

• NEWSPAPERMAN (noun)
  The noun NEWSPAPERMAN has 1 sense:

1. a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media

  Familiarity information: NEWSPAPERMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEWSPAPERMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

correspondent; newspaperman; newspaperwoman; newswriter; pressman

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

journalist (a writer for newspapers and magazines)

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

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)

 Context examples 

"Well, I've left two stories with a newspaperman, and he's to give his answer next week," whispered Jo, in her confidant's ear.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When Lady Russell not long afterwards, was entering Bath on a wet afternoon, and driving through the long course of streets from the Old Bridge to Camden Place, amidst the dash of other carriages, the heavy rumble of carts and drays, the bawling of newspapermen, muffin-men and milkmen, and the ceaseless clink of pattens, she made no complaint.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)