editor
Pluraleditors
- 1A person at a newspaper or publisher who fixes stories, chooses which ones get printed, or does both.
The editor put the flood story on the front page.
She wrote to the editor to complain about the headline.
UsageTo get your opinion printed, you write a letter to the editor.
- 2A person who reads writing, fixes mistakes, and makes it better, often before it is published.
The editor fixed the spelling and cut two long paragraphs.
Anyone can become an editor on the website and change an article.
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- 3A computer program for writing and changing files, especially text.
Open the file in a text editor and change the first line.
Programmers argue about which editor is best.
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- 4A person who cuts and joins film or video so the shots are in the right order.
The editor cut the two-hour film down to ninety minutes.
She works as an editor on TV shows, putting the shots in order.
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- 5The person who edited one particular piece of writing.
The editor of this collection picked stories by twelve different writers.
The book names its editor on the title page.
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- 6A machine for cutting and joining movie film.
Dad still has an old film editor for cutting his home movies.
He threaded the film through the editor and looked for the cut.
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Origin
From Latin, based on a word meaning "to give out" or "publish."
Checked 6 Nov 2026 · 1 fact
- Editor comes from Latin, ultimately from ēdō, meaning ‘give out, put forth, publish’. en.wiktionary.org