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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
presenter
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a television presenterBritish English
▪ a well-known television presenter
TV presenter
▪ He’s the top TV presenter for children’s programmes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
radio
▪ In the last few weeks she became a local radio presenter.
▪ Our guide to the spirit of Morse is radio presenter, Brian Redhead.
television
▪ The only woman included within the Cabinet was Akiko Santo, a television presenter and member of the Takeshita faction.
▪ Every year they name a new flower after a personality - this year's was television presenter Anne Gregg.
▪ The smile that launched a career Fans of television presenter Michaela Strachan love her famous cheeky grin.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Libby Purves, the radio presenter, has also written several novels.
▪ The presenter read the news headlines.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A presenter, after all, knows that a viewer has the visual evidence to check on what is being said.
▪ Every year they name a new flower after a personality - this year's was television presenter Anne Gregg.
▪ I knew that presenters could be expendable.
▪ The once boyish, bubbly children's presenter admitted his addiction live on television in front of 2.5 million viewers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Presenter

Presenter \Pre*sent"er\, n. One who presents.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
presenter

1540s, "one who presents" (a position, degree, etc.), agent noun from present (v.); meaning "host of a radio or television program" is from 1967.

Wiktionary
presenter

n. 1 Someone who presents a broadcast programme; a compere or master of ceremonies. 2 Someone who presents a thing or person to someone else. 3 (context computing English) A small handheld device used to remotely control a computerised slide show. 4 (context software English) Part of a special GUI software that assumes the functionality of the "middle-man".

WordNet
presenter
  1. n. someone who presents a message of some sort (as a petition or an address or a check or a memorial etc.)

  2. an advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.) [syn: sponsor]

  3. person who makes a gift of property [syn: donor, giver]

Wikipedia
Presenter

A presenter host or hostess is a person or organization responsible for the running of a public event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. In films, a presenter (but not a host) is a usually a well-known executive producer credited with introducing a film or filmmaker to a larger audience. For example: "Presented by Cecil B. DeMille".

Usage examples of "presenter".

His comment had been made purely from a humorous and the next word seemed to cause the presenter some trouble metonymic perspective, and he unconditionally rejected any literal interpretation that might be placed on it.

Bade pour se faire presenter a la comtesse, et bientot on le vit partout aux cotes de la belle Corysandre.

Born in Bangalore and educated at various Catholic schools in England, she obtained a first-class Honours degree at Cambridge, and after a brief period in publishing is now the writer and presenter of her own TV series, Jemima Shore Investigates, which has probed a number of controversial issues from women's rights to racial conflict, housing shortages to juvenile crimealong the way winning a number of awards and making her a major television personality.

He explained that Southerners had become so sensitive about their reputation for being shit-squishing rednecks that all the presenters on TV and radio tried to sound as if they came from the North and had never in their whole lives nibbled a hush puppy or sniffed a grit.

Opposite him, across the sweeping curve of the presentation console, were two Ken‑and‑Barbie‑style presenters of indeterminate age.

There was of course nothing on their papers, but maintaining the fiction that TV presenters are proper journalists, as opposed to people who read whatever comes up on the autocue, is one of the principal duties of current‑affairs broadcasting.

For not only was Declan the most natural thing ever seen on television, but, unlike other presenters and chat show hosts, he never showed off or talked about himself, and he always did his homework.

Tell all our presenters and DJs we're backing Corinium a hundred per cent throughout this campaign.

Then one of the chemical option presenters from Houston got up, and graciously conceded defeat to the guys from Marshall.

The presenters showed how the new technology could be extended beyond the first landings to be used for a return to the Moon, establishing a Mars base, orbital missions to Venus.

Trid presenters, even on ratings dogs like "The Awakened World," get paid a drekload.

Television’s demands, as far as female presenters were concerned, made it mandatory that Madeline Shipley be physically attractive and personally charming, but she was much more than this: intelligent, inquisitive, and when necessary, ruthless.

Girls who subliminally model themselves on kid-show presenters, full of faulty melody and joy, Melody and Joy.

Born in Bangalore and educated at various Catholic schools in England, she obtained a first-class Honours degree at Cambridge, and after a brief period in publishing is now the writer and presenter of her own TV series, Jemima Shore Investigates, which has probed a number of controversial issues from women's rights to racial conflict, housing shortages to juvenile crime-along the way winning a number of awards and making her a major television personality.