EDITOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does editor mean? 

• EDITOR (noun)
  The noun EDITOR has 2 senses:

1. a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)

2. (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data

  Familiarity information: EDITOR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDITOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

editor; editor in chief

Hypernyms ("editor" is a kind of...):

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "editor"):

anthologist (an editor who makes selections for an anthology)

art editor (an editor who is responsible for illustrations and layouts in printed matter)

copy editor; copyreader; text editor (an editor who prepares text for publication)

subeditor (an assistant editor)

bowdleriser; bowdlerizer; expurgator (a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages)

managing editor (the editor in charge of all editorial activities of a newspaper or magazine)

newspaper editor (the editor of a newspaper)

redact; redactor; reviser; rewrite man; rewriter (someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication)

Instance hyponyms:

Bowdler; Thomas Bowdler (English editor who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of the works of Shakespeare (1754-1825))

Cattell; James McKeen Cattell (American psychologist and editor (1860-1944))

Howe; Irving Howe (United States editor (1920-1993))

Derivation:

edit (prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting)

editorial (relating to or characteristic of an editor)

editorship (the position of editor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

editor; editor program

Hypernyms ("editor" is a kind of...):

application; application program; applications programme (a program that gives a computer instructions that provide the user with tools to accomplish a task)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "editor"):

linkage editor (an editor program that creates one module from several by resolving cross-references among the modules)

text editor ((computer science) an application that can be used to create and view and edit text files)

 Context examples 

Of course editors were so busy that they could not afford the time and strain of reading handwriting.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If you are writing a novel, for example, your editor might want you to define one of your characters more vividly to improve the strength of the story.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But Mr. McArdle—my news editor, you know—will want to know what I have done.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It did happen to see the light in a newspaper,” I replied, “but not because the magazine editors had been denied a glimpse at it.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

We'll take this (editors never say I), if you don't object to a few alterations.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One day my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Replies rose smooth and prompt now:—You must enclose the advertisement and the money to pay for it under a cover directed to the editor of the Herald; you must put it, the first opportunity you have, into the post at Lowton; answers must be addressed to J.E., at the post-office there; you can go and inquire in about a week after you send your letter, if any are come, and act accordingly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Fanny read to herself that it was with infinite concern the newspaper had to announce to the world a matrimonial fracas in the family of Mr. R. of Wimpole Street; the beautiful Mrs. R., whose name had not long been enrolled in the lists of Hymen, and who had promised to become so brilliant a leader in the fashionable world, having quitted her husband's roof in company with the well-known and captivating Mr. C., the intimate friend and associate of Mr. R., and it was not known even to the editor of the newspaper whither they were gone.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I sing a song, and thanks to the magazine editors I transmute my song into a waft of the west wind sighing through our redwoods, into a murmur of waters over mossy stones that sings back to me another song than the one I sang and yet the same song wonderfully—er—transmuted.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

His jaw seemed to become squarer, his chin more aggressive, and he bundled the manuscripts off to new editors.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)