Library / English Dictionary

EDITOR IN CHIEF

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Synonyms:

editor; editor in chief

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("editor in chief" is a kind of...):

skilled worker; skilled workman; trained worker (a worker who has acquired special skills)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "editor in chief"):

anthologist (an editor who makes selections for an anthology)

art editor (an editor who is responsible for illustrations and layouts in printed matter)

copy editor; copyreader; text editor (an editor who prepares text for publication)

subeditor (an assistant editor)

bowdleriser; bowdlerizer; expurgator (a person who edits a text by removing obscene or offensive words or passages)

managing editor (the editor in charge of all editorial activities of a newspaper or magazine)

newspaper editor (the editor of a newspaper)

redact; redactor; reviser; rewrite man; rewriter (someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication)

Instance hyponyms:

Bowdler; Thomas Bowdler (English editor who in 1818 published an expurgated edition of the works of Shakespeare (1754-1825))

Cattell; James McKeen Cattell (American psychologist and editor (1860-1944))

Howe; Irving Howe (United States editor (1920-1993))

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