editor
/ˈɛd.ɪ.təɹ/ noun A2- A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
- A copy editor.
- 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.
- A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film or audio tape etc.
- A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files. · This editor won't open JPG files. I need a graphics editor.
- Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.
Plural editors
From the library
The next morning, as soon as he awoke, Danglars asked for the newspapers; they were brought to him; he laid aside three or four, and at last fixed on l’Impartial, the paper of which Beauchamp was the chief editor.
Although professing diametrically opposite principles from those of the editor of the other paper, Beauchamp—as it sometimes, we may say often, happens—was his intimate friend.
The editor was reading, with apparent delight, a leading article in the same paper on beet-sugar, probably a composition of his own.
“Are you interested in the sugar question?” asked the editor of the ministerial paper.
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