publisher

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pub=lish=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

publisher, n. 

 One who publishes; as, a publisher of a book or magazine.  [1913 Webster]
"For love of you, not hate unto my friend,
Hath made me publisher of this pretense."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

publisher, n.
1 a person or esp. a company that produces and distributes copies of a book, newspaper, etc. for sale.
2 US a newspaper proprietor.
3 a person or thing that publishes.

THESAURUS

publisher

adviser, announcer, annunciator, authority, bibliognost, bibliographer, biblioklept, bibliolater, bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliopegist, bibliophage, bibliophile, bibliopole, bibliopolist, bibliotaph, bibliothec, bibliothecaire, bibliothecary, book agent, book collector, book printer, book publisher, book salesman, book-stealer, bookbinder, bookdealer, booklover, bookmaker, bookman, bookseller, bookworm, cataloger, channel, chief librarian, college editor, communicant, communicator, copy editor, curator, dictionary editor, editor, editor-in-chief, enlightener, executive editor, expert witness, gossipmonger, grapevine, informant, information center, information medium, informer, interviewee, juvenile editor, librarian, library director, managing editor, monitor, mouthpiece, newsmonger, notifier, permissions editor, philobiblist, press, printer, production editor, public relations officer, radio, reference editor, reference librarian, reporter, source, spokesman, television, teller, textbook editor, tipster, tout, trade editor, witness

ROGET THESAURUS

publisher

Book

N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, Grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Publication

N publication, public announcement, promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento, circulation, indiction, edition, hue and cry, publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype, vox populi, report, the Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily, telegraphy, publisher, imprint, circular, circular letter, manifesto, advertisement, ad, placard, bill, affiche, broadside, poster, notice, published, current, in circulation, public, notorious, flagrant, arrant, open, trumpet-tongued, encyclical, encyclic, promulgatory, exoteric, publicly, in open court, with open doors, Int, Oyez!, O yes!, notice!, notice is hereby given, this is to give, these are to give notice, nomina stultorum parietibus haerent, semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.