- 1a person who is in charge of a newspaper, magazine, etc., or part of one, and who decides what should be included the editor of “The Washington Post” the sports/financial/fashion editor
- 2a person who prepares a book to be published, for example by checking and correcting the text, making improvements, etc. see copy editor, managing editor
- 3a person who prepares a movie, radio, or television program for being shown or broadcast by deciding what to include, and what order it should be in
- 4a person who works as a journalist for radio or television reporting on a particular area of news our economics editor
- 5a person who chooses texts written by one or by several writers and prepares them to be published in a book She's the editor of a new collection of ghost stories.
- 6(computing) a program that allows you to change stored text or data
NAmE//ˈɛdət̮ərˌʃɪp//
noun [uncountable] the editorship of “The Denver Post”See editor in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: editor