typograph

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noun

A machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.

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Meanings

nountypograph (plural typographs)

plural typographs

  1. historicalmediaA machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.
verbtypograph (third-person singular simple present typographs, present participle typographing, simple past and past participle typographed)

present singular third person typographs · participle present typographing · participle past typographed · past typographed

  1. To prepare type in such a machine.

    It is the merest chance in the world whether you’re born a countess or a washerwoman. I’m neither one nor t’other; I’m only a mot who does a little typographing by way of variety.

    1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861

Origin

From type + -o- + -graph.

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APA

typograph. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/typograph

MLA

“typograph.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/typograph. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “typograph,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/typograph.

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