pressman

Other forms of pressman

plural

pressmans·

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 pressman

What does pressman mean?

pressman means "someone whose occupation is printing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pressman?

pressman has 2 syllables: pres-sman. The stress falls on "pres". In IPA it is /ˈpɹɛsmən/.

What is another word for pressman?

Close synonyms include printer, correspondent, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pressman a common word?

pressman is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.