PRESSMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pressman mean? 

• PRESSMAN (noun)
  The noun PRESSMAN has 2 senses:

1. someone whose occupation is printing

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

  Familiarity information: PRESSMAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESSMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone whose occupation is printing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

pressman; printer

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))

Sense 2

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 ("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)

 Context examples 

He had never received a sign of the existence of one, and from absence of judgment in rejecting all he wrote it seemed plausible that editors were myths, manufactured and maintained by office boys, typesetters, and pressmen.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)