Meaning

7 senses
  1. A person who edits or makes changes to documents.

    Herausgeber, Editor, Redakteur

    реда́кторredáktor, редакторкаredaktorka

    реда́кторredáktor, реда́кторкаredáktorka

  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.

    Redakteur, Redakteurin

    реда́кторredáktor

    реда́кторredáktor, реда́кторкаredáktorka

    a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)

  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.

    Editor, Texteditor

    реда́кторredáktor

    реда́кторredáktor

  7. Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.

    монтажёрmontažór

Examples

81 sentences
  1. Tom became editor-in-chief.

    Том став головним редактором. — deniko

    ruТом стал главным редактором. — sharptoothed

  2. Tom is the editor-in-chief.

  3. I met Tom through my editor.

  4. You don't want to be an editor?

  5. Tom is an assistant editor, isn't he?

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
person who edits:
Русский
By meaning 2
person who edits:
someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
person who edits:
newspaper editor:
program for modifying text files:

Origin

From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participl

From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).

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Forms

plural: editors

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine):editor in chief
  • (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data:editor program

Word family

36 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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