compositor
/kəmˈpɒzɪtə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.15 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who sets type; a typesetter.
Example Sentences
- "Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade, or a story, no one, either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there."
- "All Spaniards, we discovered, knew two English expressions. One was 'O.K., baby', the other was a word used by the Barcelona whores in their dealings with English sailors, and I am afraid the compositors would not print it."
- "However late medieval copyists were supervised — and controls were much more lax than many accounts suggest — scribes were incapable of committing the sort of "standardized" error that was produced by a compositor who dropped the word "not" from the Seventh Commandment and thus created the "wicked" Bible of 1631."
- "I work as an image compositor."
Etymology
From French compositeur, from Latin compositor.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: compositeur, compositor