n. A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
n. A copy editor.
n. A person who edited a specific document.
n. A person at a newspaper or similar institution who edits stories and decides which ones to publish.
n. A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
n. A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
n. Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. One who edits; one who prepares, or superintends the preparation of, a book, journal, etc., for publication. Abbreviated ed.
n. An exhibitor: in the phrase editor of the games (translating the Latin editor ludorum), an officer who superintended the Roman public games.
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n. (computer science) a program designed to perform such editorial functions as rearrangement or modification or deletion of data
n. 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)
Word Usage
"He was editor of The Bookman after that magazine was taken over by the George H. Doran Company, and retired to the genteel dignity of contributing editor in 1920, to obtain leisure for more writing of his own."