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editor Definition

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

editor Related Forms
ed′i·tor·ship′ noun
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;

editor Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • contribute: And when the nr contributing editor you to quot.
  • commission: Content owners and producers sell directly to digital consumers who needs commissioning editors?

Adjective modifier

  • deputy: For ten years he was deputy chief editor of a major South Asian weekly in Mumbai: The Blitz.
  • founding: Arnold Spencer-Smith was the founding editor of the student magazine, The Queens ' Courier, renamed after two issues The Dial.
  • former: The course is led by Matt Ford, former editor of The Big Issue.
  • assistant: About the author Mark Wainwright is an assistant editor of Plus.
  • honorary: He was also the Honorary Editor of the new Ecodynamics Journal.
  • graphical: SUBJECT: We propose a graphical meta editor to define symbols and logic to generate graphical editors.

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.
  • jay: To be a with the helpful managing editor jay that includes all.

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.
  • nr: Antigua or old nr editors rich to quot experience.
  • script: Checklist Read the BBC comedy script editor 's checklist.
  • managing: To be a with the helpful managing editor jay that includes all.
  • freelance: She decided to go as a freelance editor whilst looking after her two children, who are now teenagers themselves.
  • newspaper: Newspaper editors are writing them to add a different angle to their online sites.

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.
  • magazine: The editor of the magazine actually called to tell me they really liked the story.
  • newspaper: Hello, I'm Rob Irvine, editor of the best -selling newspaper in North Wales - the Daily Post.
editor Quotes

   Editor: a person employed bya newspaper, whose business it isto separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. Hubbard

—Hubbard, Elbert Green

An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy.

—Stead,WilliamThomas

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

Will they ever forgive me for writing Roughing It? They know that it was thetruth, but have I not been a mark for every vulgar editor of a village journal, throughout the length and breadth of the land to hurl a stone at, and point out as the enemy to Canada.

—Moodie, Susanna ne¤  e Strickland

The most important single thing in publishing is the English sentence, and the editor who cannot contemplate it again and again with a sense of wonder has not yet gained respect for the complexity of learning.

—Jovanovich,William

   Procrustes was an editor.

—Skelton, Robin

Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.

—Christiansen, Arthur

Cada esta c° a‹  o da vida e¤   uma edi c° a‹  o, que corrige a anterior, e que sera¤   corrigida tambe¤  m, ate¤   a edi c° a‹  o definitiva, que o editor da¤   de gra c° a aos vermes. Each stage in life is an edition that supersedes the previous one and will also be superseded until the definitive edition: the one that the editor gives to the worms.

—Machado de Assis,Joaquim Maria

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

—Cheever,JohnWilliam

Browse dictionary entries near editor

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