commentator

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
17
Words With Friends
21
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/ˈkɑmənˌteɪtəɹ/ (US)
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/ˈkɑmənˌteɪtəɹ/ (US) · /ˈkɒmənˌteɪtə/ (UK)

Definition of commentator

7 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (obsolete, rare)A person who makes a commentary, particularly
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noun

  1. (obsolete, rare)A person who makes a commentary, particularly
  2. A person who makes a commentary, particularly
  3. A person who makes a commentary, particularly
    “It would be well into the fourteenth century before the commentators came into their own.”
  4. A person who makes a commentary, particularly
  5. A person who makes a commentary, particularly
    “He was a commentator for football two years before retiring.”
  6. A person who makes a commentary, particularly
    “Specifically, and unforgivably, she restarted the Heathrow Third Runway bandwagon, which had been stalled for more than a decade and even declared dead by most commentators.”
  7. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of commentator (medieval legal scholar)

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Etymology

In form, from Middle English commentator, from Latin commentātor (“author, inventor, interpreter, jailer”), from commentātus + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from commentāri (“to ponder, to study, to write upon”), from comminīscor (“to think over, to invent”) + -tārī (“to frequently be ~ed”). In meaning, influenced by comment and commentary. By surface analysis, comment + -ator.

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