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edi·tor (ed′it ər)

noun

  1. a person who edits; often, specif., one whose work is procuring and editing manuscripts
  2. ☆ the head of a department of a newspaper, magazine, etc.
  3. ☆ a device for editing film, videotape, etc. as by viewing, cutting, and splicing

Etymology: L < editus, pp. of edere, to give out, publish < e-, out + dare, to give: see date

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editor Synonyms

editor

n.

redactor, reviser, copyreader, rewriter, supervisor, director, editor-in-chief, annotator, compiler, proofreader, copyholder, reader, editorial writer, columnist, deskman, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, rewrite man, rewrite woman, lexicographer, desk*, blue-penciler*. see also author 2, journalist, writer.

Types of editors include: managing, general, associate, assistant, night, newspaper, magazine, city, telegraph, sports, state, wire, women's, society, feature, Sunday, picture, photo, graphics, art, technical, copy, line;


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editor Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • contribute: And when the nr contributing editor you to quot.

Adjective modifier

  • deputy: For ten years he was deputy chief editor of a major South Asian weekly in Mumbai: The Blitz.

Modifies a noun

  • modelhelicopters.co.uk: As usual, entries must be in by 1200 hrs Wednesday September 6th, please send to editor AT modelhelicopters.co.uk.

Noun used with modifier

  • text: A global solution is to make a simple text editor, rather than Excel, the default program with which to open these files.

Possessives

  • note: The first bothered me enough to insert an Editor's note saying there are other issues involved.

Preposition: of

  • journal: She is joint editor of the journal, Eurasian Studies.
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editor quotes

An editor must always be with the peopleöthink with themöfeel with themöand he need fear nothing, he will always be rightöalways be strongöalways free.

-Bennett,James Gordon, Snr

It often happens that a man of considerable eminence in his own profession, but without the smallest acquaintance with the fundamentals of economics, will make a suggestion which is precisely on a level with the proposition that the locomotive would be much more efficient if itsweight weretakenoffthe driving wheelsso that they could revolve more easily. The editor of an important magazineacceptswithjoy the contributionin whichhedevelopshisideas, and thepublic feebly thinks that there may be something in it, and is confirmed in this view by the fact that professional economists are as disinclined to publisha refutationof it asthe Astronomer Royal is to answer the theorists who declare that the world is flat.

-Cannan, Edwin

   Trust your editor, and you'll sleep on straw.

-Cheever,JohnWilliam

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