editor
A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
Other meanings
A person who edited a specific document.
“John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson.”
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.”
Related words
- coeditor
- deaditor
- editorless
- editorlike
- editorship
- editress
- Emacs
- faned
- idiotor
- intereditor
- noneditor
- posteditor
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "ēditor".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “editor” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.