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commentator

noun

  1. person who writes a commentary to a text
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Pronunciation: /ˈkɑmənˌteɪtəɹ/ / /ˈkɒmənˌteɪtə/

noun

Etymology: In form, from Middle English commentator, from Latin commentātor (“author, inventor, interpreter, jailer”), from commentātus + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from commentāri (“to ponder, to study, to write upon”), from comminīscor (“to think over, to invent”) + -tārī (“to frequently be ~ed”). In meaning, influenced by comment and commentary. By surface analysis, comment + -ator.

  1. A person who makes a commentary, particularly
  2. A person who makes a commentary, particularly
  3. A person who makes a commentary, particularly

    “It would be well into the fourteenth century before the commentators came into their own.”

  4. A person who makes a commentary, particularly
  5. A person who makes a commentary, particularly

    “He was a commentator for football two years before retiring.”

  6. A person who makes a commentary, particularly

    “Specifically, and unforgivably, she restarted the Heathrow Third Runway bandwagon, which had been stalled for more than a decade and even declared dead by most commentators.”