ED'ITOR, noun [Latin from edo, to publish.] A publisher; particularly, a person who superintends an impression of a book; the person who revises, corrects and prepares a book for publication; as Erasmus, Scaliger, etc. 1. One who superintends the publication of a newspaper.
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