editorial

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: ed=i=to=ri=al

CIDE DICTIONARY

editorial, a. 

 Of or pertaining to an editor; written or sanctioned by an editor; as, editorial labors; editorial remarks.  [1913 Webster]

editorial, n. 

 A leading article in a newspaper or magazine; an editorial article; an article published as an expression of the views of the editor.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

editorial, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or concerned with editing or editors.
2 written or approved by an editor.
--n. a newspaper article written by or on behalf of an editor, esp. one giving an opinion on a topical issue.

Derivative

editorialist n. editorialize v.intr. (also -ise). editorially adv.

THESAURUS

editorial

allegorizing, analysis, annotative, article, clarifying, column, comment, commentary, commentation, critical, critical review, criticism, critique, demonstrative, demythologizing, elucidative, enlightening, essay, euhemeristic, exegetic, exemplificative, explaining, explanatory, explicative, explicatory, expositive, expository, gloss, glossarial, illuminating, illuminative, illustrative, journalese, journalistic, leader, leading article, magazinish, magaziny, newspaperish, newspapery, notice, periodical, rationalistic, rationalizing, remark, report, reportorial, review, running commentary, scholiastic, serial, write-up

ROGET THESAURUS

editorial

Dissertation

N dissertation, treatise, essay, thesis, theme, monograph, tract, tractate, tractation, discourse, memoir, disquisition, lecture, sermon, homily, pandect, excursus, commentary, review, critique, criticism, article, leader, leading article, editorial, running commentary, investigation, study, discussion, exposition, commentator, critic, essayist, pamphleteer, discursive, discoursive, disquisitionary, expository.