editor
Syllables: ed·i·tor/ˈɛd.ɪ.tə//ˈɛd.ɪ.təɹ/
editor noun: a person who edits or makes changes to documents.
Noun
editor (plural editors)
- 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 in the top 100 list of editors by number of edits.)2024 August 29, Ashley Rindsberg, “How Wikipedia Launders Regime Propaganda”, in Pirate Wires, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2024
- A copy editor.
- A person who edited a specific document.
- John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson.
- 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.
- A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
- A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
- The TPU EVE editor is an excellent, extensible, programmable editor.
- Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.
editor meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
editor in Hindi
- newspaper editor
- संपादक sampādak, एडिटर eḍiṭar
- program for modifying text files
- संपादक sampādak, एडिटर eḍiṭar
editor in Tamil
- பதிப்பாசிரியர், செய்தி ஆசிரியர், ஆசிரியர், தொகுப்பான், தொகுப்பி, எடுவையர்
editor in Marathi
- person who edits
- संपादक sampādak, संपादिका sampādikā
- person who edited a specific document
- संपादक sampādak, संपादिका sampādikā
- newspaper editor
- संपादक sampādak, संपादिका sampādikā
editor in Urdu
- مدیر
More languagesFewer languages
- editor in Bengali
- সম্পাদক śompadok
- editor in Malayalam
- സംശോധകൻ, ചലച്ചിത്രങ്ങളുടെയോ, സംശോധകം
- editor in Kannada
- ಸಂಪಾದಕ, ಅಳವಡಿಗ
- editor in Gujarati
- એડિટર eḍiṭar
- editor in Nepali
- सम्पादक sampādak
- editor in Arabic
- مُحَرِّر muḥarrir, مُحَرِّرَة muḥarrira
- editor in Malay
- penyunting, editor, pengedit
- editor in Indonesian
- editor, pengedit, penyunting
- editor in Thai
- บรรณาธิการ ban-naa-tí-gaan
- editor in Vietnamese
- biên tập viên
- editor in Myanmar
- အယ်ဒီတာ aidita
Examples of editor in a sentence
- It was a slow news day, so the editor asked us to make our articles wordier.
- The editor asked me to rewrite my article for a non-technical audience.
- This organization doesn't publish any copy that hasn't been edited by a good copy editor.
Forms of editor
| plural | editors |
|---|---|
| alternative abbreviation | ed. |
| alternative abbreviation | edit. |
| alternative form | Ed. |
| alternative form (obsolete, rare) | editour |
Origin of editor
From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).
Words formed from editor
- 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
- executive editor
- faned
- flatbed editor
- hex editor
- hex-editor
- idiotor
- input method editor
- intereditor
- letter to the editor
- linkage editor
- link editor
- logo editor
- makeup editor
- managing editor
- noneditor
- nonlinear editor
- photo editor
- posteditor
- preditor
- Redditor
- script editor
- stone editor
- story editor
- subeditor
- subeeditor
- yed
Phrases with editor
Questions about editor
- What does editor mean?
- Editor means a person who edits or makes changes to documents.
- What is editor in Hindi?
- Editor in Hindi is संपादक (sampādak), एडिटर (eḍiṭar). See Editor meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is editor?
- Editor is a noun.
- How do you pronounce editor?
- Editor is pronounced /ˈɛd.ɪ.tə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of editor?
- The plural of editor is editors.
Words near editor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: editor (page history and authors); editor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); editor (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); editor (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); editor (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); એડિટર (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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