Dictionary

editress en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɛdɪtɹəs/ (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Medieval Latin ēditorder. English editor Late Latin -issader. Old French -essebor. Middle English -esse English -ess English editress From editor + -ess.

Meanings

1. (dated) A female editor.
   • “Girls like Phyllis Mills are an open book to me. For four years I was, if you remember, the proprietor and editress of a weekly paper for women.” She was alluding to the periodical entitled Milady's Boudoir […] 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
   • This must be Arduina, her sister-in-law, editress of a Woman's Rights paper, who had written her two or three extraordinary letters. 1905, Grazia Deledda, chapter 1, in Helen Hester Colvill, transl., Nostalgia, page 8:
   • "If it doesn't suit will you let Mrs. Langdon, the editress know by lunch-time today?" 1958, A.G. Yates, The Cold Dark Hours, Sydney: Horwitz, published 1963, page 80:

Forms

Synonyms

editrix