editor

A person who edits or makes changes to documents.

Noun

  1. A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
    • Eight days after Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate, the Criticism section on Walz’s Wikipedia article was removed in its entirety. (The removal was made by an editor with administrator status who is...
  2. A copy editor.
  3. A person who edited a specific document.
    • John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson.
  4. A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.
    • John is the city editor at the Daily Times.
  5. A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
  6. A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
    • The TPU EVE editor is an excellent, extensible, programmable editor.
  7. Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.

Origin

Etymology tree Medieval Latin ēdō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Medieval Latin -tor Medieval Latin ēditorder. English editor From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).

Forms

editors ed. edit. Ed. editour

Derived

chief editor City editor coeditor commissioning editor copy editor deaditor edit editor-at-large editorial editorializing editor in chief editorless editorlike editorship editress Emacs exchange editor faned flatbed editor hex-editor hex editor idiotor input method editor intereditor