printing

noun

print·​ing ˈprin-tiŋ 

1

: the act or product of one that prints

2

: reproduction in printed form

3

: the art, practice, or business of a printer

4

: impression sense 7a

5

printings plural : paper to be printed on

Examples of printing in a Sentence

The book is already in its second printing, and a third printing is scheduled for later this year.

The book has had two printings of 100,000 copies each.

Her printing is very neat.

Recent Examples on the Web

Specifically, the auxiliary funds will come from areas such as student housing, parking fees, food services, bookstore sales, telecommunications, printing services, postal services and computing services. —Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 June 2025

In honor of Juneteenth, Children’s Fairyland is staying open an extra hour until 5 p.m. and offering special activities including block-tee printing, special beverages and a clown. —Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 18 June 2025

Having tested small printing shops to national chains, the tattoo shop kept encountering one obstacle after another. —Jason Phillips, USA Today, 7 June 2025

With more powerful telescopes and new printing technologies, astronomers began applying the cartographic tools of geographers to create the first detailed maps of the planet’s surface, filling it in with continents and seas, and in some cases features that could have been produced by life. —Matthew Shindell, The Conversation, 6 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing printing

• 3D printing
• printing office
• printing press
• relief printing

Rhymes for printing

• glinting
• hinting
• minting
• splinting
• sprinting
• squinting
• tinting
• fingerprinting
• imprinting
• reprinting
• unstinting

Kids Definition

printing

noun

print·​ing ˈprint-iŋ 

1

: the process of putting something in printed form

2

: the art or business of a printer