editor

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).

THE EDITOR TO THE READER. — The Sorrows of Young Werther, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Editor of "The Grim 13." — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
The editor shook his head. — The Young Alaskans on the Missouri, Emerson Hough

editor in chief

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