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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
compere
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Brookside actress Rachael is making her Playhouse debut, while comedian Duggie Brown plays the compere.
▪ Duggie Brown is excruciatingly convincing as the sleazy, no-talent compere whose best reward is to grope all and sundry.
▪ Even the compere, noted for his own style in suits, tried to bump up the bidding.
▪ Precious, has choreography by Lea Anderson who was the compere for the recent Channel 4 series Tights!
▪ The compere will be Billy Butler.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
compere

1738, from French compère "a godfather," from Old French compere (13c., from Medieval Latin compater) "godfather," also a friendly greeting, "friend, brother," hence "fellow, familiar, intimate" (see compadre).

Wiktionary
compere

n. (context chiefly British English) A master of ceremonies, especially for a television, variety or quiz show. vb. (context intransitive transitive English) To act as compere.

WordNet
compere

  1. n. British term for someone who introduces television acts or cabarets etc

  2. v. act as a master of ceremonies [syn: emcee]

Wikipedia
Compere

Compere or compère refers to a master of ceremonies. It is also a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Loyset Compère, a French composer of the Renaissance
  • Louis Fursy Henri Compere (1768-1833), a French general in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars
  • Claude Antoine Compere (1774-1812), a French general in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars

Usage examples of "compere".

Seated on a green-and-white striped chair he watched a revue, of which from start to finish he understood but one word—'out', to wit—absorbed in the doings of a red-moustached gentleman in blue who wrangled in rapid French with a black-moustached gentleman in yellow, while a snow-white commere and a compere in a mauve flannel suit looked on at the brawl.

Do an espe­cially good job showing them how our nonhuman comperes behave in simulated natural settings.