editor.
A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
Meaning & usage
A person who edits or makes changes to documents.
A copy editor.
A person who edited a specific document.
John Johnson wrote this term paper and the editor was Joan Johnson.
A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.
John is the city editor at the Daily Times.
A machine used for editing (cutting and splicing) movie film
A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
The TPU EVE editor is an excellent, extensible, programmable editor.
Someone who manipulates video footage and assembles it into the correct order etc for broadcast; a picture editor.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti Proto-Italic *didō Latin dō Latin ēdō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Medieval Latin ēditorder. English editor From Medieval Latin ēditor, from Late Latin ēditor, from ēditus, perfect passive participle of ēdō (“give out, put forth, publish”).
Try it on your idea.
editor has 6 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.
These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.
Explore the name generatorA word with a source.
Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.
Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.