Edit Definition

ĕdĭt

edited, editing, edits

verb

edited, editing, edits

To prepare (an author's works, journals, letters, etc.) for publication, by selection, arrangement, and annotation.

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To revise and make ready (a manuscript) for publication.

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To modify or adapt so as to make suitable or acceptable.

Edited her remarks for presentation to a younger audience.

American Heritage

To supervise the publication of and set the policy for (a newspaper, periodical, reference book, etc.)

Webster's New World

To prepare (a film, tape, or recording) for presentation by cutting and splicing, dubbing, rearranging, etc.

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Synonyms:

noun

An act of editing.

A cut made in the edit.

Webster's New World

Abbreviation of edition.

Wiktionary

Abbreviation of editor.

Wiktionary

Abbreviation of editore (Italian for “publisher”).

Wiktionary

Abbreviation of editorial.

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Synonyms:

abbreviation

Edited (by)

Webster's New World

Edition.

Webster's New World

Editor.

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adjective

Abbreviation of edited.

Wiktionary

Abbreviation of editorial.

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idiom

edit out

to delete in editing

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Other Word Forms of Edit

Noun

Singular:

edit

Plural:

edits

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Edit

edit out

Origin of Edit

Partly back-formation from editor and partly from French éditer to publish (from Latin ēditus) (past participle of ēdere) (ē-, ex- ex-) (dare to give dō- in Indo-European roots)

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition