An editor is the person who is in charge of a newspaper or magazine and who decides what will be published in each edition of it.
2. countable noun
An editor is a journalist who is responsible for a particular section of a newspaper or magazine.
Cookery Editor Moyra Fraser takes you behind the scenes.
3. countable noun
An editor is a person who checks and corrects texts before they are published.
Your role as editor is important, for you can look at a piece of writing objectively.
4. countable noun
An editor is a radio or television journalist who reports on a particular type of news.
...our economics editor, Dominic Harrod.
5. countable noun
An editor is a person who prepares a film, or a radio or television programme, by selecting some of what has been filmed or recorded and putting it in a particular order.
She worked at 20th Century Fox as a film editor.
6. countable noun
An editor is a person who collects pieces of writing by different authors and prepares them for publication in a book or a series of books.
Michael Rosen is the editor of the anthology. [+ of]
7. countable noun
An editor is a computer program that enables you to change and correct stored data.
[computing]
More Synonyms of editor
editor in British English
(ˈɛdɪtə)
noun
1.
a person who edits written material for publication
2.
a person in overall charge of the editing and often the policy of a newspaper or periodical
3.
a person in charge of one section of a newspaper or periodical
the sports editor
4. cinema
a.
a person who makes a selection and arrangement of individual shots in order to construct the flowing sequence of images for a film
b.
a device for editing film, including a viewer and a splicer
5. television, radio
a person in overall control of a programme that consists of various items, such as a news or magazine style programme
6.
a computer program that facilitates the deletion or insertion of data within information already stored in a computer
Derived forms
editorship (ˈeditorˌship)
noun
Word origin
C17: from Late Latin: producer, exhibitor, from ēdere to give out, publish, from ē- out + dāre to give
editor in American English
(ˈɛdɪtər)
noun
1.
a person who edits; often, specif., one whose work is procuring and editing manuscripts
2. US
the head of a department of a newspaper, magazine, etc.
3. US
a device for editing film, videotape, etc. as by viewing, cutting, and splicing
Derived forms
editorship (ˈeditorˌship)
noun
Word origin
L < editus, pp. of edere, to give out, publish < e-, out + dare, to give: see UNRESOLVED CROSS REF
Examples of 'editor' in a sentence
editor
Are they editors of magazines in other countries?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Entry for a chapter within an anthology with two editors.
Bachmann, Susan (editor) & Barth, Melinda Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook (1995)
He was not just the presenter but also the man in charge as managing editor.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
There may also be criminal proceedings involving its journalists and editors.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
One programme editor praised him to me for being less interfering than some of his predecessors.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The value of our people is as editors and journalists.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The first half comprises journalists and editors who may well take up the mantle.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Books editors can be very cruel.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The film editor has fared better.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The Times is looking for an assistant news picture editor to work across its news sections.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The film editor and the lawyer are feeling something, too.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Well the match-day programme editors certainly seemed to know!
The Sun (2014)
She is being sued by a film editor who claims he was not paid 3,700.
The Sun (2010)
Her team insists that the editors and Journalists employed by the outlet will be independent.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
She began making experimental films, then documentaries and worked as a film editor.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
His father was a film editor, his mother a medical receptionist.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
I would not have wanted to be the editor of this book.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
While news editors formerly acted as judge and jury for public knowledge, our mob mentality hardly produces better results.
Christianity Today (2000)
Let programme editors manage programmes.
The Sun (2013)
I was unsure whether to take part in the series since being an editor and a journalist does notnecessarily mean you can write.
The Sun (2008)
If the anthology has an editor, note the name or names after the "Ed.
Bachmann, Susan (editor) & Barth, Melinda Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook (1995)
The book was his editor's idea and it doesn't have the same sense of a quest.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Her task was that of a news editor and sub-editor combined, both choosing and editing stories for publication.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
A magazine editor's outrageous demands make her trainee assistant's life a nightmare.
The Sun (2012)
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In other languages
editor
British English: editor /ˈɛdɪtə/ NOUN
An editor is a person in charge of a newspaper or magazine, or a section of a newspaper or magazine, who makes decisions concerning the contents.
Her father was the editor of a newspaper.
American English: editor
Arabic: مُحَرِّر
Brazilian Portuguese: editor
Chinese: 编辑
Croatian: urednik
Czech: redaktor
Danish: redaktør
Dutch: redacteur
European Spanish: director
Finnish: toimittaja julkaisija, päätoimittaja
French: éditeur
German: Herausgeber
Greek: επιμελητής έκδοσης
Italian: redattore
Japanese: 編集者
Korean: 편집자
Norwegian: redaktør
Polish: edytor
European Portuguese: editor
Romanian: redactor
Russian: редактор
Latin American Spanish: editor
Swedish: redaktör
Thai: บรรณาธิการ
Turkish: editör
Ukrainian: редактор
Vietnamese: biên tập viên
All related terms of 'editor'
city editor
the editor in charge of financial and commercial news
copy editor
a person whose work is editing and correcting the grammar , punctuation , etc. of articles or manuscripts , as in a newspaper office or publishing house
desk editor
someone employed to read through newspaper text before publication to correct errors
news editor
a person who is in charge of the news desk at a newspaper or broadcasting organization and whose job is to oversee the selection and preparation of news items for publication or broadcast
sub-editor
A sub-editor is a person whose job it is to check and correct articles in newspapers or magazines before they are printed.
text editor
a computer program that allows the user to create and edit text files
beauty editor
the person in charge of a section of newspaper or magazine devoted to cosmetics , etc
night editor
an editor , esp of a newspaper, who works through the night until the newspaper, etc goes to press
senior editor
an editor in a senior position, who supervises and coordinates the editorial activities of a publication , such as a newspaper
fashion editor
an editor in charge of the fashion content of a newspaper or magazine
feature editor
a newspaper or magazine journalist who commissions and edits feature articles
literary editor
someone who edits literature and books
managing editor
a senior member of the management team of a newspaper or magazine
picture editor
someone whose job is to deal with the photographs and illustrations for a newspaper or magazine
assistant editor
a person who assists an editor in their work
footsteps editor
the technician who adds sound effects, such as doors closing, rain falling, etc, during the postproduction sound-dubbing process
programme editor
someone responsible for editing , overseeing and selecting the content of radio or television programmes
commissioning editor
a person who commissions authors to write books and magazine articles