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Definition of "compositor" [com•pos•i•tor]

  • One that sets written material into type; a typesetter. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "compositor" in a sentence
  • "But as early as the twelfth century we find the term compositor used by Johannes"
  • "Carlyle’s writing was so bad that one compositor is said to have left Edinburgh in order to get away from the job of setting it up."
  • "Is this the man who would have equality amongst all his fellow-creatures, and who calls a compositor a printer's devil?"