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Definition: Editorial |
EditorialAdjective1. Of or relating to an article stating opinions or giving perspectives; "editorial column". 2. Relating to or characteristic of an editor; "editorial duties". Noun1. An article giving opinions or perspectives. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "editorial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonyms: EditorialSynonyms: column (n), newspaper column (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dissertation | Commentary, review, critique, criticism, article; leader, leading article; editorial; running commentary. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Excuse my editorial laugh (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) This is the editorial page (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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![]() | T-Sheet with editorial comments constructed from aerial photography Field work in vicinity of NOAA Seattle ship base on Lake Union. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | [TSD editorial section]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Refueling from USS Ashtabula (AO-51), while operating off the coast of Vietnam, circa early 1966. Although seas were running very high, the ships completed replenishment and Ticonderoga received 175,000 gallons of black oil. The original print was received by the "All Hands" magazine Editorial Department on 14 February 1966. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Puck's advice gratis to some editorial shriekers for Grant Don't forget your "Man on Horseback" - but your man on foot has too many curs at his heels / / J. Keppler. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Editorial staff of the New York Tribune. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The editorial page and the news columns. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Canon EOS 500" by Philip Jackson Commentary: "Camera - Canon eos 500, taken for a photography competition editorial." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Adapted signifies "reproduced" or "reproduced with minor editorial adjustments." (references) | |
Finally, special thanks are owed to Tiffany LaRochelle for her excellent editorial support. (references) | ||
"Adapted" signifies that the text is reproduced with attribution, with some or no editorial adjustments. (references) | ||
Business | In the capital and in other major urban centers, the media show a high degree of editorial independence. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Malawi | News coverage and editorial content clearly are progovernment. (references) |
Luxembourg | While independent, all but one have an editorial line slanted toward a major political party. (references) | |
Yugoslavia | These stations have some editorial biases, but BK is considered to be a respected news source. (references) | |
Economic History | Canada | They may deduct full advertising costs if the magazine contains 80 percent or more original (specifically for the Canadian market) editorial content. (references) |
Tunisia | THE LOCAL PRINT MEDIA IN TUNISIA GENERALLY ACCEPT PAID ADVERTISING, ALTHOUGH THERE ARE (UNWRITTEN) STANDARDS FOR ADVERTISING WHICH CORRESPOND TO THOSE FOR EDITORIAL CONTENT. (references) | |
Canada | Canadian advertisers, merchants and service providers may now claim a tax deduction for one-half of their advertising costs if they place ads in foreign magazines with zero to 79 percent Canadian editorial content. (references) | |
Human Rights | Tunisia | Human rights groups allege that the initial attack was in response to an editorial printed the month before in Kaws El Karama calling for a change of government. (references) |
Minorities | Switzerland | The newspaper, which has an editorial office in Zurich, allegedly used racist and inflammatory language when referring to Serbs in Kosovo and Macedonians in Macedonia. (references) |
Ukraine | Leaders of the Jewish community welcomed changes in the editorial staffs of the newspapers Vechirniy Kyiv and Za Vilnu Ukrayinu in late 2000. Under new editors, these newspapers, which had been among the chief offenders in publishing anti-Semitic articles, ceased such activity. (references) | |
Political Economy | Malawi | The seven private radio stations experienced relative freedom in broadcasting international news and entertainment programming; however, the Government continued to control news coverage and editorial content at the state-owned Malawi Broadcasting Corporation's (MBC) two radio stations. (references) |
Croatia | Unlike the previous regime, the Government did not interfere politically in the editorial decisions of the media; however, at the local level, political pressure on the media continued, and an estimated 1,200 libel lawsuits against journalists remained pending due to backlogs in the judicial system. (references) | |
Political Rights | Tajikistan | While state television provided free broadcast time to parties competing in the election, it failed to provide balanced news and editorial coverage of the campaign. (references) |
Worker Rights | Thailand | In February, 23 staff members of the iTV television station were fired after the employees formed a union and publicly complained of political interference in editorial content. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Read the Anti-Free Speech Editorial. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Editorial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 63.98% of the time. "Editorial" is used about 643 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 63.98% | 412 | 13,706 |
| Noun (singular) | 36.02% | 232 | 19,713 |
| Total | 100.00% | 643 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Chile | Editorial Lord Cochrane S.A. | Mexico | Editorial Diana, S.A. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "editorial": Editorial [Publication Type] ♦ editorial board ♦ editorial department ♦ editorial office ♦ editorial page editor ♦ editorial staff ♦ in an editorial ♦ with an editorial. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "editorial": next-to-editorial, sub-editorial. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "editorial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | redaksional, kryeartikull (feature, leader, leading article), i botimeve. (various references) | |
Arabic | كلمة العدد, مكتوب بقلم رئيس التحرير, الإفتتاحية (leading). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уводна статия (lead, leader, leading article), редакционен, редакторски. (various references) | |
Chinese | 社论, 社論 . (various references) | |
Czech | vydavatelský, redakèní úvodník, redakèní, úvodník (leader), úvodní èlánek. (various references) | |
Danish | spidsartikel (leader article, leading article), leder (leader, search). (various references) | |
Dutch | hoofdartikel (leading article). (various references) | |
Esperanto | redakcio (editorial office). (various references) | |
Farsi | سرمقاله . (various references) | |
Finnish | pääkirjoitus (leader, leading article). (various references) | |
French | éditorial. (various references) | |
German | leitartikel (editorials, leader, leading article). (various references) | |
Greek | κύριο άρθρο (leader article, leading article). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מאמר ראשי (leader), דבר העורך. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vezércikk (leader, leading article), szerkesztőségi, szerkesztői. (various references) | |
Indonesian | tajuk rencana. (various references) | |
Italian | editoriale (editorials, leader, publishing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 論説 (dissertation), 編輯 (compilation, editing), 編集 (compilation, editing), 編修 (compilation, editing), 社説 (leading article), エッフェル塔 (and so forth, Eden, Edinburgh, edit, editing, edition, editor, editorial design, education, Eiffel Tower, enamel, enamel paint, energy, et cetera, ethos, Oedipus complex, somewhat, star, stranger, tufted puffin). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゃせつ (leading article), ろんせつ (dissertation), エディトリアル , へんしゅう (bias, compilation, eccentricity, editing, little boat, obstinacy, skiff). (various references) | |
Korean | 논설 (Discourse). (various references) | |
Manx | art yn reagheyder, ard-art (leader). (various references) | |
Norwegian | lederartikkel. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | editorialay.(various references) | |
Polish | redakcja (editorial office). (various references) | |
Portuguese | editorial (leader article, leading article). (various references) | |
Romanian | editorial (publishing), redacţional, articol de fond (leader, leading article). (various references) | |
Russian | редакционный (redactional), редакторский, передовая статья/ .редакционный, передовица (leader, leading article). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uvodnik, urednički. (various references) | |
Spanish | editorial (leader, leading, leading article, publishing house), artículo de fondo (editorials, leader, leading, leading article). (various references) | |
Swedish | utgivar-, tidningsledare, redaktions-, redaktionell, redaktörs-, ledare (boss, captain, chief, chieftain, conductor, core, director, frontrunner, fugleman, gov., governor, head, kingpin, leader, manager, pilot, top dog), ledande artikel. (various references) | |
Thai | เกี่ยวกับบรรณาธิการ, บทบรรณาธิการ. (various references) | |
Turkish | editör ile ilgili, yazı işleri ile ilgili, başyazı, başmakale (lead story, leader, leading article). (various references) | |
Turkmen | redaksiяa (r) (editorial staff). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | редакційний, редакторський, передовиця (leader). (various references) | |
Welsh | golygyddol. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "editorial": editorialist, editorialists, editorialization, editorializations, editorialize, editorialized, editorializer, editorializers, editorializes, editorializing, editorially, editorials. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "editorial": noneditorial, subeditorial. (additional references) | |
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"Editorial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: additiorial, dehistorical, deitorial, editoral, Editori. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "editorial" (pronounced e'dutô"rēul) |
| 7 | -u t ô" r ē u l | conspiratorial, curatorial, dictatorial, equatorial, extraterritorial, gubernatorial, territorial, janitorial, nomenclatorial, senatorial. |
| 6 | -t ô" r ē u l | advertorial, directorial, pictorial, prosecutorial, raptorial, reportorial, sartorial, tutorial. |
| 5 | -ô" r ē u l | ambassadorial, arboreal, immemorial, memorial, professorial. |
| 4 | -r ē u l | industrial, actuarial, adversarial, aerial, antibacterial, Ariel, arterial, bacterial, biomaterial, burial, cereal, endometrial, ethereal, extraterrestrial, immaterial, imperial, terrestrial, magisterial, malarial, managerial, material, mercurial, ministerial, secretarial, serial, venereal, vitriol. |
| 3 | -ē u l | adverbial, alluvial, biaxial, bicentennial, biennial, binomial, bronchial, centennial, ceremonial, coaxial, collegial, colloquial, colonial, convivial, custodial, decennial, entrepreneurial, filial, fluvial, testimonial, intracranial, jovial, laryngeal, lineal, marsupial, matrilineal, matrimonial, medial, menial, microbial, millennial, myocardial, parochial, patrilineal, perennial, pluvial, polynomial, primordial, proverbial, pseudopodial, quadrennial, radial, remedial, tracheal, triennial, trivial, vestigial. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-l-o-r-t" | |
-1 letter: idolater, tailored. | |
-2 letters: dariole, delator, deliria, dilater, dilator, diorite, leotard, redtail, trailed. | |
-3 letters: adroit, airted, ariled, dartle, derail, detail, dialer, dilate, dotier, editor, eidola, iodate, iolite, laired, loader, loiter, oilier, orated, ordeal, railed, redial, relaid, reload, retail, retial, retold, rialto, rioted, roadie, roiled, tailed, tailer, tailor, tidier, tirade, tirled, toiled, toiler, triode. | |
-4 letters: adore. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-l-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: editorials, idolatries. | |
+2 letters: directional, directorial, disrelation, editorially. | |
+3 letters: cordialities, deliberation, depilatories, derivational, dilatometric, dilatoriness, disrelations, editorialist, editorialize, immortalised, immortalized, inordinately, modularities, noneditorial, orientalized, providential, rationalised, rationalized, revalidation, solidarities, subeditorial, tropicalized. | |
+4 letters: adorabilities, bidirectional, coresidential, defibrillator, deliberations, derealization, dilatometries, editorialists, editorialized, editorializer, editorializes, pictorialized, prodigalities, radiationless, radioactively, reduplication, revalidations, roadabilities, solderability, tetraploidies, traditionless, valedictorian, valedictories. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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