editor

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ed=i=tor

CIDE DICTIONARY

editor, n. [L., that which produces, from edere to publish: cf. F. éditeur.].

 One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

editor, n.
1 a person who edits material for publication or broadcasting.
2 a person who directs the preparation of a newspaper or periodical, or a particular section of one (sports editor).
3 a person who selects or commissions material for publication.
4 a person who edits film, sound track, etc.
5 a computer program for modifying data.

Derivative

editorship n.

Etymology

LL, = producer (of games), publisher (as EDIT)

DEVIL DICTIONARY

editor

n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the editor spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos.

O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of Thought,
A gilded impostor is he.
Of shreds and patches his robes are wrought,
His crown is brass,
Himself an ass,
And his power is fiddle-dee-dee.
Prankily, crankily prating of naught,
Silly old quilly old Monarch of Thought.
Public opinion's camp-follower he,
Thundering, blundering, plundering free.
Affected,
Ungracious,
Suspected,
Mendacious,
Respected contemporaree!
J.H. Bumbleshook

THESAURUS

editor

allegorist, annotator, bibliognost, bibliographer, biblioklept, bibliolater, bibliomane, bibliomaniac, bibliopegist, bibliophage, bibliophile, bibliopole, bibliopolist, bibliotaph, bibliothec, bibliothecaire, bibliothecary, book agent, book collector, book printer, book publisher, book reviewer, book salesman, book-stealer, bookbinder, bookdealer, booklover, bookmaker, bookman, bookseller, bookworm, captious critic, carper, cataloger, caviler, censor, censurer, chief librarian, cicerone, city editor, clarifier, cognoscente, collector, college editor, columnist, commentator, commenter, compiler, connoisseur, copy chief, copy editor, copyman, copyreader, correspondent, critic, criticaster, criticizer, critickin, criticule, cryptanalyst, cryptographer, cryptologist, cub reporter, curator, decoder, definer, demonstrator, demythologizer, diaskeuast, dictionary editor, dragoman, editor-in-chief, editorial writer, editorialist, emendator, emender, euhemerist, executive editor, exegesist, exegete, exegetist, explainer, explicator, exponent, expositor, expounder, faultfinder, feature editor, foreign correspondent, gazetteer, glossarist, glossographer, go-between, guide, hermeneut, interpreter, interviewer, journalist, juvenile editor, leader writer, leg man, lexicographer, librarian, library director, literary critic, man of letters, managing editor, metaphrast, muckraker, news analyst, news editor, newsman, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, oneirocritic, own correspondent, paragrapher, paragraphist, paraphrast, permissions editor, philobiblist, pressman, printer, production editor, publicist, publisher, reader, redactor, reference editor, reference librarian, reporter, reviewer, reviser, rewrite man, rewriter, scholiast, slotman, smellfungus, sob sister, social critic, special correspondent, sports editor, subeditor, textbook editor, textual critic, trade editor, translator, war correspondent, writer

ROGET THESAURUS

editor

Book

N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, Grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.