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text editors

text editors is the plural of text editor.

Meaning of text editor

Noun

text editor (plural text editors)

  1. A program which allows a user to edit the contents of a text file, usually in an interactive way with immediate visual feedback.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see text, editor.
    • Between 1620 and 1640 he worked as a text editor in the Patriarchal Press in Moscow.1976, Robert O. Crummey, “ARSENII GLUKHOI (?-1643)”, in Joseph L[eon] Wieczynski, editor, The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, volume 2 (Anikin - Bailov Rocks), Gulf Breeze, Fla....

Questions about text editors

What is text editors the plural of?
Text editors is the plural of text editor.

Words near text editors in the dictionary

  1. text boxes
  2. text creep
  3. text door neighbour
  4. text door neighbours
  5. text editor
  6. text editors
  7. text file
  8. text files
  9. text hand
  10. text hands
  11. text hook

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Adapted from Wiktionary: text editors (page history and authors); text 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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