editor
/ˈɛd.ɪ.təɹ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.62 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A copy editor.
noun
A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.
noun
A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
noun
Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.
Example Sentences
- "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.)"
- "John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson."
- "John is the city editor at the Daily Times."
- "The TPU EVE editor is an excellent, extensible, programmable editor."
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 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”).
Word Breakdown
- Root: ēditor
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɛd.ɪ.təɹ/
- British English: /ˈɛd.ɪ.tə/
Inflected Forms
editors (plural)
ed. (alternative, abbreviation)
edit. (alternative, abbreviation)
Ed. (alternative)
editour (alternative, obsolete)