3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

publisher

noun

1: a firm in the publishing business [syn: {publishing house}, {publishing firm}, {publishing company}]

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

3: the proprietor of a newspaper [syn: {newspaper publisher}]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Publisher \Pub"lish*er\, noun One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or magazine.

For love of you, not hate unto my friend, Hath made me publisher of this pretense. --Shak.

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

80 Moby Thesaurus words for "publisher": adviser, announcer, annunciator, authority, bibliognost, bibliographer, biblioklept, bibliolater, bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliopegist, bibliophage, bibliophile, bibliopole, bibliopolist, bibliotaph, bibliothec, bibliothecaire, bibliothecary, book agent, book collector, book printer, book publisher, book salesman, book-stealer, bookbinder, bookdealer, booklover, bookmaker, bookman, bookseller, bookworm, cataloger, channel, chief librarian, college editor, communicant, communicator, copy editor, curator, dictionary editor, editor, editor-in-chief, enlightener, executive editor, expert witness, gossipmonger, grapevine, informant, information center, information medium, informer, interviewee, juvenile editor, librarian, library director, managing editor, monitor, mouthpiece, newsmonger, notifier, permissions editor, philobiblist, press, printer, production editor, public relations officer, radio, reference editor, reference librarian, reporter, source, spokesman, television, teller, textbook editor, tipster, tout, trade editor, witness

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