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EDITORIAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An article giving opinions or perspectives
Synonyms:
column; editorial; newspaper column
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to an article stating opinions or giving perspectives
Example:
editorial column
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
editorial (an article giving opinions or perspectives)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Relating to or characteristic of an editor
Example:
editorial duties
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
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:
And thereupon he would get out one or another of his manuscripts, such as "Adventure," and read it over and over in a vain attempt to vindicate the editorial silence.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And so with the editorial machine.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
It was at this time, at the lowest ebb, that the smooth-running editorial machine broke down.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The local papers had taken it up, and daily there appeared columns of learned criticisms, facetious editorials, and serious letters from subscribers.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
They appreciated or sneered at the morning editorials, jumped from labor conditions in New Zealand to Henry James and Brander Matthews, passed on to the German designs in the Far East and the economic aspect of the Yellow Peril, wrangled over the German elections and Bebel's last speech, and settled down to local politics, the latest plans and scandals in the union labor party administration, and the wires that were pulled to bring about the Coast Seamen's strike.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He had no doubt whatever of the efficacy of his formula, and for once he knew the editorial mind when he said positively to himself that the first two he sent off would bring checks.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
And robbers and robbed drank together, amicably agreeing that the battle was to the strong, and that the fifteen dollars for "The Peri and the Pearl" belonged by right to The Hornet's editorial staff.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the Yale News—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the well-rounded man.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
