| publisher |  |  | 
| n. (group) | 1. publisher, publishing company, publishing firm, publishing house | a firm in the publishing business. | 
|  | ~ business firm, firm, house | the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments.; "he worked for a brokerage house" | 
|  | ~ newspaper, newspaper publisher, paper | a business firm that publishes newspapers.; "Murdoch owns many newspapers" | 
|  | ~ magazine publisher, magazine | a business firm that publishes magazines.; "he works for a magazine" | 
| n. (person) | 2. publisher | a person engaged in publishing periodicals or books or music. | 
|  | ~ professional, professional person | a person engaged in one of the learned professions. | 
|  | ~ baedeker, karl baedeker | German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859). | 
|  | ~ john bartlett, bartlett | United States publisher and editor who compiled a book of familiar quotations (1820-1905). | 
|  | ~ henry oscar houghton, houghton | United States publisher who founded a printing shop that became an important book publisher (1823-1895). | 
|  | ~ henry luce, henry robinson luce, luce | United States publisher of magazines (1898-1967). | 
|  | ~ keith rupert murdoch, murdoch, rupert murdoch | United States publisher (born in Australia in 1931). | 
|  | ~ adolph simon ochs, ochs | United States newspaper publisher (1858-1935). | 
| n. (person) | 3. newspaper publisher, publisher | the proprietor of a newspaper. | 
|  | ~ owner, proprietor | (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business.; "he is the owner of a chain of restaurants" | 
|  | ~ press lord | a powerful newspaper proprietor. | 
|  | ~ 1st baron beaverbrook, beaverbrook, william maxwell aitken | British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964). | 
|  | ~ alfred charles william harmsworth, harmsworth, viscount northcliffe | British newspaper publisher (1865-1922). | 
|  | ~ benjamin harris, harris | publisher of the first newspaper printed in America (1673-1713). | 
|  | ~ hearst, william randolph hearst | United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951). | 
|  | ~ joseph pulitzer, pulitzer | United States newspaper publisher (born in Hungary) who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911). | 
|  | ~ james edmund scripps, scripps | United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908). | 
|  | ~ edward wyllis scripps, scripps | United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926). | 
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