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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE conservative ▪ Even very conservative commentators can regard the conditions within some prisons as morally intolerable to a civilized community. ▪ But while Mr Mitterrand won praise and respect abroad, he often ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an expert who observes and comments on something [syn: observer ] a writer who reports and analyzes events of the day [syn: reviewer ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A commentator is a person who comments or expresses an opinion on a subject. Specific commentators may include: A pundit , who offers to mass media their opinion or commentary on a particular subject area A political or social commentator, who practices ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commentator \Com"men*ta`tor\, n. [L. commentator: cf. F. commentateur.] One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator. The commentator's professed object is to explain, to enforce, to illustrate doctrines claimed as true. --Whewell. ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person who comments; especially someone who is paid to give his/her opinions in the media about current affairs, sports, etc.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "writer of commentaries," agent noun in Latin form from comment or commentary (Latin commentator meant "inventor, author"). Middle English also had a noun commentate , attested from early 15c. Meaning "writer of notes or expository comments" ...

Usage examples of commentator.

The early radio commentators had had to invent a way to do what had never been done before: to speak out the news over the airwaves, arranging the information in time, not in space as print journalists arranged it, and to do so in tones and accents that would make them seem caring and aware.

Derrida, and while I do not recommend that you attempt to tackle the whole book at this stage, you could put yourself considerably ahead of many commentators and critics by acquiring a detailed knowledge of the section of the book in which this remark occurs, using the intensive reading technique I describe in the Introduction.

First, here is that astringent graphic commentator on the contemporary mores and folkways of these United States, the inimitable Joe Chuck.

Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem and Israeli commentator Meron Benvenisti has called a Herrenvolk democracy, with power and status held by a ruling ethnicity, corresponded to a core part of the Jacksonian ethos in the United States, at least until the 1960s.

Several of the signatories to this document had joined with neoconservative and other right-wing Republican commentators in supporting the Iraq War.

Locria and Plato his Commentator wrote of the Soul of the World, developing the doctrine of Pythagoras, who thought, says Cicero, that God is the Universal Soul, resident everywhere in nature, and of which our Souls are but emanations.

Look up that raciest of commentators, and see what he there says about the deliberate tears of the captives in Babylon.

There had been only minor interest from the zines, whose commentators asked why our radionics were so inaccurate.

He did not share the dislike of Aristotle manifested by most of the humanists, for he shrewdly suspected that what was offensive in the Stagyrite was due more to his scholastic translators and commentators than to himself.

The visions of Ezekiel, by the river Chebar, and of the new Symbolic Temple, are equally mysterious expressions, veiled by figures of the enigmatic dogmas of the Kabalah, and their symbols are as little understood by the Commentators, as those of Free Masonry.

Our German commentator has collected the passages of the Theodosian Code which relate to this class of officers, and has shown that on account of their rapacity and extortion their office was subjected to a continual process of degradation.

Weather commentators tried to maintain the tradition of wackiness the job is known for, but could not keep out of the proceedings an element of surrender, as if before some first hard intelligence of the advent of an agent of rapture.

Proper Meaning of the Four Books as determined by Chu Hsi, Compared with, and Illustrated from, other Commentators.

Clemens and his wife, had converted to Judaism is one obvious interpretation of the source, a view held by some commentators, including E.

Some commentators suggest that there is something peculiarly male about scepticism.