Sentence examples for dictionary editor from inspiring English sources

Like Anana's father, the dictionary editor, I shiver at the pleasure of identifying the right word.

If a dictionary editor says this to journalists and scholars, they will believe him.

A major challenge for the dictionary editor who must define sexual terms is deciding how explicit to be.

The article also included a quotation that gave an outdated name for a newspaper where a dictionary editor said that some people send their knaidel recipes.

As a dictionary editor with 20 years' experience (I worked on American children's  dictionaries and then for Oxford University Press before founding the online dictionary Wordnik in 2008), I believe that every word should be lookupable.

The task of a dictionary editor is two-fold: on the one hand to create a reliable record of word-use, and on the other to preserve the history, tradition, and experience of the language.

According to Macmillan's dictionary editor-in-chief, Michael Rundell, the word "got in on its own merit, and not because a celebrity made it up" "It passed our criteria in terms of frequency and breadth of use," he said.

And that's how dictionary editors work, too.

DICTIONARY editors, though, have dismissed Mr. Turow politely but firmly.

A natural question is whether computers are making dictionary editors redundant.

Sending a letter to dictionary editors demanding inclusion isn't the way.