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commentator
/ˈkɑmənˌteɪtəɹ/
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What does commentator mean?
noun
- A person who compiles explanations and critical notes on a text.
- A person who compiles explanations of the law, particularly (historical) comparatively innovative European jurists in the 14th century, as opposed to earlier glossators.
- A person who compiles explanations of biblical passages.
More meanings (4)
noun
- A person who provides an instantaneous description of a public event, particularly a sporting event, for a mass media audience.
- A person who provides analysis or opinion on current events, especially for a mass media audience.
- Alternative letter-case form of commentator (medieval legal scholar)
- (obsolete, rare) Synonym of historian or chronicler, a person who compiles an annotated history.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkɑmənˌteɪtəɹ/
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Buchanan--a commentator on Smith--regarded farm-rent as the result of a monopoly, and maintained that labor alone is productive.
The hundredth commentator passes it on to the next, still more knotty and perplexed than he found it.
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PHOEBE Nay, as a wit, as a humorist, as a most philosophic commentator on the vanity of human resolution.
Unfortunately, the mind of the commentator has usually been directed towards such subtleties, rather than towards the expression of precise knowledge.
We find a Ming commentator at loss to recall the shape of the tea whisk mentioned in one of the Sung classics.