typewriter

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A manual typewriter from the early twentieth century

Etymology

to typewrite + -er

An electric typewriter from the 1960s

Noun

typewriter (plural typewriters)

1. A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper.
2. (archaic) One who uses a typewriter; a typist.

   The typewriter got up and disappeared out a back door, and soon she come back with a man, and he said, "Can I be of some help, Mr. Higgens?" -- The Southpaw, Mike Harris, 1953.

Synonyms

• (one who uses a typewriter): typist

Derived terms

• typewritery

Related terms

• microtypewriter
• type
• typist
• typewrite
• write

Translations

machine used to print text by pressing keys

• Arabic: آلة كاتبة (ar) ('aala kaatiba) f
• Armenian: գրամեքենա (hy) (gramek’ena)
• Asturian: máquina d'escribir (ast) f
• Azeri: maşınka (az)
• Catalan: màquina d'escriure (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打字機 (cmn), 打字机 (cmn) (dǎzìjī)

• Czech: psací stroj (cs) m
• Danish: skrivemaskine (da) c
• Dutch: schrijfmachine (nl) f
• Esperanto: tajpilo (eo), skribmaŝino (eo)
• Estonian: kirjutusmasin (et)
• Finnish: kirjoituskone (fi)
• French: machine à écrire (fr) f
• Galician: máquina de escribir (gl) f
• Georgian: საწერი მანქანა (ka) (saceri mank'ana)
• German: Schreibmaschine (de) f
• Greek: γραφομηχανή (el) (grafomichaní) f
• Hungarian: írógép (hu)
• Icelandic: ritvél (is) f

• Irish: clóscríobhá (ga) m
• Italian: macchina da scrivere (it) f
• Japanese: タイプライター (ja) (taipuraitā), 印字機 (ja) (いんじき, injiki)
• Jèrriais: machinne à êcrithe f
• Khmer: អង្គុលីលេខ (km) (ang gu ly lek)
• Luxembourgish: Schreifmaschinn (lb) f
• Malay: mesin taip (ms)
• Norwegian: skrivemaskin (no) m
• Polish: maszyna do pisania (pl) f
• Portuguese: máquina de escrever (pt) f
• Russian: пишущая машинка (ru) (píšušaja mašínka) f, печатная машинка (ru) (pečátnaja mašínka) f
• Scottish Gaelic: clò-sgrìobhadair (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: kucaljka (sh) f
• Spanish: máquina de escribir (es) f
• Swedish: skrivmaskin (sv) c
• Tagalog: makinilya (tl)
• Turkish: daktilo (tr), daktilo makinesi (tr), yazı makinesi (tr)
• Volapük: penamacin (vo)
• Welsh: teipiadur (cy) m

one who uses a typewriter

• Finnish: konekirjoittaja (fi)
• French: dactylo (fr) m and f
• Greek: δακτυλογράφος (el) (daktylográfos) m and f
• Hungarian: gépíró (hu), gépírónő (hu)
• Icelandic: ritari (is) m, vélritari (is) m
• Polish: maszynistka (pl) f

• Russian: машинист (ru) (mašiníst) m, машинистка (ru) (mašinístka) f
• Scottish Gaelic: clò-sgrìobhadair (gd) m, clò-sgrìobhaiche (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian: kucač (sh) m, kucar (sh) m
• Swedish: skrivmaskinist (sv), maskinskrivare (sv)
• Volapük: (male or female) klavan (vo), (male) hiklavan (vo), (female) jiklavan (vo)

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• Korean: 타이프라이터 (ko)

See also

• touch-typist