editor

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Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
7
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈɛd.ɪ.tə/
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/ˈɛd.ɪ.tə/ · /ˈɛd.ɪ.təɹ/ · [ˈɛɾ.ɪ.tɚ] · [ˈɛɾ.ɪ.ɾɚ]

Definition of editor

7 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
    “Eight days after Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate, the Criticism section on Walz’s Wikipedia article was removed in its entirety. (The removal was made by an editor with administrator status who is in the top 100 list of editors by number of edits.)”
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noun

  1. A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
    “Eight days after Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate, the Criticism section on Walz’s Wikipedia article was removed in its entirety. (The removal was made by an editor with administrator status who is in the top 100 list of editors by number of edits.)”
  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.”
  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.”
  7. Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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…

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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”).

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