English Explanatory Dictionary

editor

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
  2. A copy editor.
  3. A person who edited a specific document.
  4. A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.
  5. A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
  6. A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
  7. Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.

Pronunciation

/ˈɛd.ɪ.tə/ /ˈɛd.ɪ.təɹ/ [ˈɛɾ.ɪ.tɚ] [ˈɛɾ.ɪ.ɾɚ] en-us-editor.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-editor.wav

Word forms

editor editors ed. edit. editour

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti Proto-Italic *didō Latin dō Latin ēdō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr 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”).

Derived words

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 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
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