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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:

Nouns denoting people

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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