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

Derived Forms

• ˈeditorˌship, 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

His long career in journalism began in newspapers, at the News Letter in the late 1970s and then as sports editor of the now-defunct Sunday News in the mid-1980s.

From BBC

Besides directing, producing and designing most of the main characters, he co-wrote the screenplay and is the cinematographer, editor and composer, among other roles.

From Los Angeles Times

He attended Erasmus Hall High School, where he was the editor of the school newspaper, and majored in political science at New York University.

From New York Times

He said the officer had told the editor he wasn't allowed to publish anything.

From BBC

The former newspaper editor said that he "could not make the necessary personal commitment" to leading a reorganisation of the party after their disappointing election performance.

From BBC