noun
Meaning 1
The highest ranking editor on an editorial staff.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
editor in chief
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noun
Meaning 2
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)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: editor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: skilled worker, trained worker, skilled workman
Narrower terms: anthologist, art editor, copy editor, copyreader, text editor, subeditor, expurgator, bowdlerizer, bowdleriser, managing editor, newspaper editor, redact, redactor, reviser, rewriter, rewrite man, Bowdler, Thomas Bowdler, Cattell, James McKeen Cattell, Howe, Irving Howe
History
Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: գլխավոր խմբագիր (glxavor xmbagir) — highest ranking editor
- Belarusian: гало́ўны рэда́ктар (halówny redáktar) — highest ranking editor
- Belarusian: гало́ўная рэда́ктарка (halównaja redáktarka) — highest ranking editor
- Bulgarian: гла́вен реда́ктор (gláven redáktor) — highest ranking editor
- Chinese Mandarin: 主編 /主编 (zhǔbiān) — highest ranking editor
- Czech: šéfredaktor — highest ranking editor
- Czech: šéfredaktorka — highest ranking editor
- Danish: chefredaktør — highest ranking editor
- Dutch: hoofdredacteur — highest ranking editor
- Dutch: eindredacteur — highest ranking editor
- Esperanto: ĉefredaktoro — highest ranking editor
- Estonian: peatoimetaja — highest ranking editor
- Faroese: aðalritstjóri — highest ranking editor
- Finnish: päätoimittaja — highest ranking editor
- French: rédacteur en chef — highest ranking editor
- French: rédactrice en chef — highest ranking editor
- Georgian: მთავარი რედაქტორი (mtavari redakṭori) — highest ranking editor
- German: Chefredakteur — highest ranking editor
- German: Chefredakteurin — highest ranking editor
- Greek: αρχισυντάκτης (archisyntáktis) — highest ranking editor
- Hindi: चीफ़ एडीटर (cīf eḍīṭar) — highest ranking editor
- Hungarian: főszerkesztő — highest ranking editor
- Icelandic: aðalritstjóri — highest ranking editor
- Italian: caporedattore — highest ranking editor
- Italian: caporedattrice — highest ranking editor
- Japanese: 編集長 (henshūchō) — highest ranking editor
- Korean: 편집장 (pyeonjipjang) — highest ranking editor
- Norwegian: sjefredaktør — highest ranking editor
- Norwegian Bokmål: sjefredaktør — highest ranking editor
- Persian: سرویراستار (sarvirâstâr) — highest ranking editor
- Polish: redaktor naczelny — highest ranking editor
- Romanian: redactor-șef — highest ranking editor
- Russian: гла́вный реда́ктор (glávnyj redáktor) — highest ranking editor
- Russian: главре́д (glavréd) — highest ranking editor
- Slovak: šéfredaktor — highest ranking editor
- Slovak: šéfredaktorka — highest ranking editor
- Spanish: jefe de redacción — highest ranking editor
- Spanish: redactor jefe — highest ranking editor
- Swedish: chefredaktör — highest ranking editor
- Swedish: redaktionschef — highest ranking editor
- Swedish: huvudredaktör — highest ranking editor
- Tagalog: punong patnugot — highest ranking editor
- Ukrainian: головни́й реда́ктор (holovnýj redáktor) — highest ranking editor
- Ukrainian: головна́ реда́кторка (holovná redáktorka) — highest ranking editor
- Vietnamese: tổng biên tập — highest ranking editor
- Vietnamese: chủ bút — highest ranking editor