Publisher
['pʌblɪʃə] or ['pʌblɪʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a firm in the publishing business.
(noun.) a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music.
(noun.) the proprietor of a newspaper.
Typed by Jeanette--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or magazine.
Edited by Guthrie
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a publisher, foretells long journeys and aspirations to the literary craft. If a woman dreams that her husband is a publisher, she will be jealous of more than one woman of his acquaintance, and spicy scenes will ensue. For a publisher to reject your manuscript, denotes that you will suffer disappointment at the miscarriage of cherished designs. If he accepts it, you will rejoice in the full fruition of your hopes. If he loses it, you will suffer evil at the hands of strangers.
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Examples
- It will be 'declined with thanks,' and left for me at the publisher's. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The publisher is getting rich very deliberately--very deliberately indeed. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Munsey, publisher of half a dozen big magazines. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This will do, for the present, from the husband and the publisher. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Sams, who was Livius's publisher, was in my box, and ventured to hiss, which example was followed by a faint vibration from the pit. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The publisher however prefers to choose his own time and place and mode of treating them. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- To suppress a paper here involves the ruin of the publisher, almost. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Warn the publisher that we can not have this sort of thing: put the editor in prison! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I had caused a printer's composing case to be set up with the idea that if we could get editors and publishers in to see it, we should show them the advantages of the electric light. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The wrapper addressograph answered the demand of publishers for great speed and 100 per cent accuracy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- My publishers gave me a most discouraging account of its sale. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- To my Publishers, for the aid their tact, their energy, their practical sense and frank liberality have afforded an unknown and unrecommended Author. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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