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Editorial

Definition: Editorial

Editorial

Adjective

1. Of or relating to an article stating opinions or giving perspectives; "editorial column".

2. Relating to or characteristic of an editor; "editorial duties".

Noun

1. 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: Editorial

Synonyms: column (n), newspaper column (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Editorial

ContextSynonyms 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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Crosswords: Editorial

English words defined with "editorial": advertorialcity desk, cutdeletionedit, editor, editor program, editorially, enallagein an editorialmanaging editoron-line, opinionparagrapher, piece of writingredactsports desk, style, style sheet, superficialtrivialviewwith an editorial, writing, written material. (references)
Specialty definitions using "editorial": Bickerstaffcopy readerEDITOR, BOOK, EDITOR, CITY, EDITOR, DICTIONARY, EDITOR, NEWS, EDITOR, NEWSPAPER, editorial page editor, EDITORIAL WRITER, editor-in-chief, newspaperlip synchronisationmakeup editor, men's magazine, metropolitan editorn.r., news information resource manager, NEWS LIBRARIAN, news library director, newspaper library manager, next to reading matter, next-to-editorialphotographer, news, PHOTOJOURNALISTscript reader'Snoozestory analyst, SUPERVISOR, CUTTING AND SPLICING, supervisor, layout, SUPERVISOR, PUBLICATIONS PRODUCTION. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Editorial" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (editorial, leader article, leading article), Romanian (editorial, publishing), Spanish (editorial, leader, leading, leading article, publishing house).

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Modern Usage: Editorial

DomainUsage

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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Commercial Usage: Editorial

DomainTitle

Books

  • Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, 1994 (reference)

  • Editorial Freelancing: A Practical Guide (reference)

  • James Gordon Bennett and the New York Herald: A Study of Editorial Opinion in the Civil War Era, 1854-1867 (Royal Historical Society Studies in Hist) (reference)

  • Seven Steps to Starting and Running an Editorial Consulting Business (reference)

  • The Family Book of Child Care. With the Editorial Collaboration of Paul GyOrgy, Irwin M. Marcus [And] Thaddeus L. Montgomery. (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Editorial

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Editorial

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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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Digital Photo Gallery: Editorial
 

"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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Editorial

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

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Spoken Usage: Editorial

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Rush Limbaugh

Read the Anti-Free Speech Editorial.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Editorial

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)63.98%41213,706
Noun (singular)36.02%23219,713
                    Total100.00%643N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Editorial

CountryNameCountryName
Chile

Editorial Lord Cochrane S.A.

Mexico

Editorial Diana, S.A.

 (more examples...)  

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Editorial

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.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "editorial": next-to-editorial, sub-editorial.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Editorial

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

editorial

593

opinion editorial

16

editorial cartoon

257

editorial oceano

16

editorial services

107

editorial writing

15

editorial televisa

39

editorial illustration

15

editorial norma

35

new york times editorial

15

diseño editorial

32

editorial.televisa.com.mx tu

14

editorial photography

32

editorial molina

14

editorial planeta

30

content editorial webmasters

13

adult content editorial site web

27

editorial porrua

13

newspaper editorial

24

stock photography editorial

13

editorial photographer

21

editorial job

12

editorial santillana

21

editorial grijalbo

12

editorial diana

21

editorial vid

11

editorial mexicana organizacion

20

design editorial

10

atlantida editorial

19

alianza editorial

10

editorial vida

19

editorial clie

10

editorial calendar

18

editorial graw hill mc

10

write an editorial

18

editorial hall prentice

10

editorial salamandra

17

editorial perfil

10

editorial trillas

17

editorial kier

10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Editorial

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.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Editorial

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)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Editorial"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "editorial" (pronounced e'dutô"rēul)
7-u t ô" r ē u lconspiratorial, curatorial, dictatorial, equatorial, extraterritorial, gubernatorial, territorial, janitorial, nomenclatorial, senatorial.
6-t ô" r ē u ladvertorial, directorial, pictorial, prosecutorial, raptorial, reportorial, sartorial, tutorial.
5-ô" r ē u lambassadorial, arboreal, immemorial, memorial, professorial.
4-r ē u lindustrial, 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 ladverbial, 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.

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Anagrams: Editorial

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.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Images: Digital Art
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Spoken
11. Usage Frequency
12. Names: Company Usage
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Bibliography


  

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