editor

[ed-i-ter]

noun

1. a person having managerial and sometimes policy-making responsibility related to the writing, compilation, and revision of content for a publishing firm or for a newspaper, magazine, or other publication.

   She was offered a managing editor position at a small press.

2. the supervisor or manager of a department of a newspaper, magazine, etc..

   the sports editor of a newspaper.

3. a person who edits, or selects and revises, material for publications, films, etc..

   a video editor;

   the editor of an online journal.

4. a device for viewing, cutting, and editing film or magnetic tape to make movies, audio recordings, etc.

5. Computers.,  a program used for writing and revising code, data, or text.

   an XML editor.

editor

/ ˈɛdɪtə /

noun

1. a person who edits written material for publication

2. a person in overall charge of the editing and often the policy of a newspaper or periodical

3. a person in charge of one section of a newspaper or periodical

   the sports editor

4. films

   1. a person who makes a selection and arrangement of individual shots in order to construct the flowing sequence of images for a film

   2. a device for editing film, including a viewer and a splicer

5. television radio a person in overall control of a programme that consists of various items, such as a news or magazine style programme

6. a computer program that facilitates the deletion or insertion of data within information already stored in a computer

Other Word Forms

• editorship noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of editor¹

1640–50; < Medieval Latin, Late Latin: publisher; edit, -tor

Word History and Origins

Origin of editor¹

C17: from Late Latin: producer, exhibitor, from ēdere to give out, publish, from ē- out + dāre to give

Example Sentences

When I was starting out, there were some editors at Rolling Stone that really felt like they needed to tell me that you can’t just write about people that you admire.

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It recently acquired the opinion and news site The Free Press in a deal valued at $150 million and named the digital publication’s founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News.

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In a statement, the management said it "welcomes the release of its editor and commends the courtesy, professionalism, and attentiveness demonstrated by investigators throughout the process".

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The people who have held the commanding heights of news—from editors down to reporters—may not be quite Kaelesque in their remoteness from their less refined fellow citizens.

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The history professor and editor from Bend, Ore., stuck to tap water during a visit there to celebrate her anniversary with her husband.

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