publisher

Other forms of publisher

plural

publishers·

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 publisher

What does publisher mean?

publisher means "a firm in the publishing business". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in publisher?

publisher has 3 syllables: pub-li-sher. The stress falls on "pub". In IPA it is /ˈpʌblɪʃɚ/.

What is another word for publisher?

Close synonyms include publishing house, publishing firm, publishing company, newspaper publisher. 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 publisher a common word?

publisher is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.