Definition of Gutenberg

1. Noun. German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468).

Exact synonyms: Johann Gutenberg, Johannes Gutenberg
Generic synonyms: Pressman, Printer

Definition of Gutenberg

1. Proper noun. ''Johannes Gutenberg'', a German printer who independently invented movable type (though it had previously been invented in East Asia centuries earlier). ¹

2. Proper noun. Project Gutenberg. ¹

3. Proper noun. A lunar crater. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gutenberg

Gustav Hertz
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Ludwig Hertz
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Robert Kirchhoff
Gustav Theodor Fechner
Gustave
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Flaubert
Gustavus
Gustavus Adolphus
Gustavus Franklin Swift
Gustavus I
Gustavus II
Gustavus V
Gutenberg
Gutenbergian
Guthrie
Guthrie test
Gutierrezia
Gutierrezia microcephala
Gutierrezia sarothrae
Gutierrezia texana
Gutnish
Guttiferae
Guttiferales
Gutzeit's test
Guugu Yimidhirr
Guwahati

Literary usage of Gutenberg

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"gutenberg next manufactured a new printer's outfit with the assistance he received worker in ... gutenberg multiplied the separate types in metal moulds. ..."

2. The Haarlem Legend of the Invention of Printing by Lourens Janszoon Coster by Antonius van der Linde (1871)
"Let us follow gutenberg by the help of positive documents. Evidences of pecuniary embarrassment present themselves afterwards also at Strasburg. ..."

3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1859)
"The partnership terminated at the end of 5 years in a suit brought by Faust against gutenberg for moneys advanced, and the latter was obliged to surrender ..."

4. The American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1874)
"The chief authorities on the life of gutenberg are: Essai d'annales de la ... facts and the arguments which the life and works of gutenberg have evolved, ..."

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