copyholder

1. 1.

   mechanical device used in printing; holds the copy for the compositor

   Broadermechanical device

Other forms of copyholder

plural

copyholders·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about copyholder

What does copyholder mean?

copyholder means "mechanical device used in printing; holds the copy for the compositor".

How many syllables are in copyholder?

copyholder has 4 syllables: co-py-hol-der. The stress falls on "py".

Is copyholder a common word?

copyholder is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.