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

My ride companion, The Times’ senior editor for video Mark Potts, remarked that it felt like going up to heaven.

From Los Angeles Times

Kolankiewicz took a job with Roy Beck, the Tanton protégé and former Washington editor of The Social Contract, who went on to found a slightly less strident “immigration reform” organization called NumbersUSA.

From Salon

I’d come across a guy named Mike Mahoney, a 20-something rising star in white nationalist circles who worked for Breitbart News and accompanied Milo Yiannopoulos, Breitbart’s firebrand tech editor, on his speaking tours.

From Salon

Guest: Sam Adams, senior editor and writer for Slate.

From Slate

Mary Harris is the host and managing editor of What Next, Slate's new daily news podcast.

From Slate