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censor
/ˈsɛnsɚ/
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What does censor mean?
noun
- An official responsible for the removal or suppression of objectionable material (for example, if obscene or likely to incite violence) or sensitive content in books, films, correspondence, and other media.
- A college or university official whose duties vary depending on the institution.
- An algorithm that approves or rejects something on grounds of taste or morality etc.
More meanings (6)
verb
- To review for, and if necessary to remove or suppress, content from books, films, correspondence, and other media which is regarded as objectionable (for example, obscene, likely to incite violence, or sensitive).
- To partially obscure an observation.
noun
- A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious mind.
- (historical) One of the two magistrates who originally administered the census of citizens, and by Classical times (between the 8th century B.C.E. and the 6th century C.E.) was a high judge of public behaviour and morality.
- (historical) A high-ranking official who was responsible for the supervision of subordinate government officials.
- (obsolete) One who censures or condemns.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsɛnsɚ/
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Such as compare Cato the Censor with the younger Cato, who killed himself, compare two beautiful natures, much resembling one another.
Nor is it true, in my belief, that dreams are important psychical events, nor that the subconsciousness evades a censor in elaborating them.
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And now becoming eminent and noted, he passed, with Valerius himself, through the greatest commands, being first his colleague as consul, and then censor.
No more would the painting of pictures in a different style from that of the Royal Academy, or producing plays unpleasing to the censor.
The opinions established in the United States under the empire of the liberty of the press are frequently more firmly rooted than those which are formed elsewhere under the sanction of a censor.