EDITORIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does editorial mean? 

• EDITORIAL (noun)
  The noun EDITORIAL has 1 sense:

1. an article giving opinions or perspectives

  Familiarity information: EDITORIAL used as a noun is very rare.

• EDITORIAL (adjective)
  The adjective EDITORIAL has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to an article stating opinions or giving perspectives

2. relating to or characteristic of an editor

  Familiarity information: EDITORIAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EDITORIAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An article giving opinions or perspectives

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

column; editorial; newspaper column

Hypernyms ("editorial" is a kind of...):

article (nonfictional prose forming an independent part of a publication)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "editorial"):

agony column (a newspaper column devoted to personal problems)

Holonyms ("editorial" is a part of...):

newspaper; paper (a daily or weekly publication on folded sheets; contains news and articles and advertisements)

Derivation:

editorialist (a journalist who writes editorials)

editorialize (insert personal opinions into an objective statement)

• EDITORIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to an article stating opinions or giving perspectives

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

editorial column

Pertainym:

editorial (an article giving opinions or perspectives)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to or characteristic of an editor

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

editorial duties

Pertainym:

editor (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))

Derivation:

editor (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))

 Context examples 

It was a new experience, the first time he had been inside an editorial office.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Does the site have an editorial board?

(Evaluating Health Information, NIH: National Library of Medicine)

"And be ready to get the toe-end of the editorial boot in return," said Lord John.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Dashwoods's editorial gravity relaxed into a smile, for Jo had forgotten her 'friend', and spoken as only an author could.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A person who edits material for publication; a person having managerial and sometimes policy-making responsibility for the editorial part of a publishing firm or of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication; the supervisor or conductor of a department of a newspaper, magazine, etc.

(Editor, NCI Thesaurus)

Returning, the boy beckoned him from halfway across the room and led him to the private office, the editorial sanctum.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Such trifles do escape the editorial mind, it is said.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

So this wonderful incident, which would make such a headline for the old paper, must still wait its turn in the editorial drawer.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A preliminary editorial note quoted Sir John Value as saying that there were no poets in America, and the publication of "Ephemera" was The Parthenon's.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The inhuman editorial machine ran smoothly as ever.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)