English
Etymology
From type + setter.
Noun
typesetter (plural typesetters)
- (historical) A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.
2023 January 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47:My writing all took place over weekends, and because I only lived about ten miles away, Peter would hot-foot it to my home on a Monday morning to collect a large parcel of hand-typed sheets of copy, for despatch to the typesetters.
- (historical) A machine that combines type in the correct order for printing.
Synonyms
Translations
person
- Azerbaijani: düzücü, mürəttib, naborçu
- Bulgarian: словослагател m (slovoslagatel)
- Czech: sazeč (cs) m
- Dutch: zetter (nl) m, letterzetter (nl) m
- Finnish: latoja (fi)
- French: typographe (fr) m or f, typote (fr) f, typo (fr) m, compositeur-typographe (fr) m
- German: Schriftsetzer (de) m, Schriftsetzerin (de) f, Metteur (de) m
- Greek: στοιχειοθέτης (el) m (stoicheiothétis), τυπογράφος (el) m or f (typográfos)
- Hungarian: betűszedő (hu), szedő (hu)
- Irish: clóchuradóir m, cló-eagraí m
- Malay: pengatur huruf
- Maori: kaiwhakanoho reta
- Polish: zecer (pl) m, zecerka (pl) f, składacz (pl) m, składaczka f
- Portuguese: compositor (pt) m, tipógrafo (pt) m
- Romanian: culegător (ro) m, zețar (ro) m, tipograf (ro) m
- Russian: набо́рщик (ru) m (nabórščik), печа́тник (ru) m (pečátnik), типо́граф (ru) m (tipógraf)
- Scottish Gaelic: clòdhadair m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: словослагач m
- Roman: slovoslagač m
- Spanish: cajista m or f
- Swedish: handsättare (sv), sättare c, typograf (sv) c
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