PUBLISHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does publisher mean? 

• PUBLISHER (noun)
  The noun PUBLISHER has 3 senses:

1. a firm in the publishing business

2. a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music

3. the proprietor of a newspaper

  Familiarity information: PUBLISHER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUBLISHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A firm in the publishing business

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

publisher; publishing company; publishing firm; publishing house

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

newspaper publisher; publisher

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)

 Context examples 

So you must get a publisher for it—the sooner the better.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The manuscript was revised around 1803 and sold to a London publisher, Crosbie & Co., who sold it back in 1816.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

If you are writing your first book, you will learn to work closely with your editor, for example, and to follow standards put forth by your publisher.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

AAAS is a publisher of the Science and EurekAlert.

(American Association for the Advancement of Science, NCI Thesaurus)

The editors were afraid of him and the publishers would have none of him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The DOI consists of two parts: a prefix assigned to each publisher by the administrative DOI agency and a suffix assigned by the publisher that may be any code the publisher chooses.

(Digital Object Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)

"But Mr. Allen says, 'Leave out the explanations, make it brief and dramatic, and let the characters tell the story'," interrupted Jo, turning to the publisher's note.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“My publishers gave me a most discouraging account of its sale. You are yourself, I presume, a medical man?”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The editors, sub-editors, associate editors, most of them, and the manuscript-readers for the magazines and book-publishers, most of them, nearly all of them, are men who wanted to write and who have failed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Or at work, you may be collaborating closely with someone important to you—your editor, producer, publisher, publicist, business partner, accountant, or lawyer, as some examples.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)