editor
Americannoun
-
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.
-
the supervisor or manager of a department of a newspaper, magazine, etc..
the sports editor of a newspaper.
-
a person who edits, or selects and revises, material for publications, films, etc..
a video editor;
the editor of an online journal.
-
a device for viewing, cutting, and editing film or magnetic tape to make movies, audio recordings, etc.
-
Computers. a program used for writing and revising code, data, or text.
an XML editor.
noun
-
a person who edits written material for publication
-
a person in overall charge of the editing and often the policy of a newspaper or periodical
-
a person in charge of one section of a newspaper or periodical
the sports editor
-
films
-
a person who makes a selection and arrangement of individual shots in order to construct the flowing sequence of images for a film
-
a device for editing film, including a viewer and a splicer
-
-
television radio a person in overall control of a programme that consists of various items, such as a news or magazine style programme
-
a computer program that facilitates the deletion or insertion of data within information already stored in a computer
Other Word Forms
- editorship noun
Etymology
Origin of editor
1640–50; < Medieval Latin, Late Latin: publisher; edit, -tor
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Vigloo has a conveyor belt-like setup where the screenwriter, director and editor focus only on their job before passing it onto the next person.
From BBC
News editors will be weighing up whether the public interest in showing the images outweighs any infringement of an individual's privacy.
From BBC
An artificial-intelligence tool created this summary, which was based on the text of the article and checked by an editor.
An artificial-intelligence tool created this summary, which was based on the text of the article and checked by an editor.
Joanna Coles, a successful editor in media and mother of two, identifies not having additional children as her biggest mistake.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
