editor

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 30.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
2. noun A copy editor.
3. noun A person who edited a specific document.

   John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson.

4. noun 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. noun A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film or audio tape etc.
6. noun A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.

   This editor won't open JPG files. I need a graphics editor.

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

Similar words

editor program publication editor-in-chief editorial reviewer edition editing journalist publishing edit

Often followed by

of and in for to at is was has

Word family

edit edited editing edition editions editorial editorials editors editorship editorships