Definitions for editorˈɛd ɪ tər

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

ed•i•torˈɛd ɪ tər(n.)

a person responsible for the editorial part of a publishing firm or a publication.
the supervisor of a department of a newspaper, magazine, etc.:
the sports editor.
a person who edits material for publication, films, etc.
Category: Showbiz
a device for editing film or magnetic tape.
Category: Electronics, Showbiz, Hi-Fi and Audio
Category: Computers
Ref: text editor.

Origin of editor:

1640–50; < ML, LL: publisher

Princeton's WordNet

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

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

editor(noun)ˈɛd ɪ tər
sb who edits books, magazines, movies, etc.
***a magazine/book/movie editor
editorˈɛd ɪ tər
sb who is the most senior editor of a newspaper or magazine
***the editor of Vogue magazine

Wiktionary

editor(Noun)
A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
editor(Noun)
A copy editor.
editor(Noun)
A person who edited a specific document.
editor(Noun)
A person at a newspaper or similar institution who edits stories and decides which ones to publish.
editor(Noun)
A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
editor(Noun)
A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
editor(Noun)
Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.

Origin: From editionem ( editio) ‘a bringing forth, producing’, from perfect passive participle editus, from stem of verb edere, ‘bring forth, produce’, from ex-, ‘out’ + -dere, combining form of dare, ‘to give’; + noun of agent suffix -or.

Webster Dictionary

Editor(noun)
one who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication

The Roycroft Dictionary

editor
1. A person employed on a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed. 2. A delicate instrument for observing the development and flowering of the deadly mediocre and encouraging its growth. 3. A seraphic embryon; a smooth bore; a bit of sandpaper applied to all forms of originality by the publisher-proprietor; an emictory.