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editour

editour is the obsolete form of editor.

Meaning of editor

Noun

editor (plural editors)

  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 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
  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.

See all 7 meanings of editor

Forms of editour

pluraleditours

Questions about editour

What is editour the obsolete form of?
Editour is the obsolete form of editor.

Words near editour in the dictionary

  1. editors-in-chief
  2. editorship
  3. editorships
  4. editosome
  5. editosomes
  6. editour
  7. editours
  8. editress
  9. editresses
  10. editrices
  11. editrix

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Adapted from Wiktionary: editour (page history and authors); editor (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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