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Definition: Commentator |
CommentatorNoun1. An expert who observes and comments on something. 2. A writer who reports and analyzes events of the day. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "commentator" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Commentator \Com"men*ta`tor\, noun. [Latin expression commentator: compare to the French expression commentateur.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: CommentatorSynonyms: observer (n), reviewer (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dissertation | Commentator, critic, essayist, pamphleteer. |
Interpreter | Scholiast, commentator, annotator; metaphrast, paraphrast; glossarist, prolocutor. |
Judgment | Censor, reviewer, critic; connoisseur; commentator; inspector, inspecting officer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Commentator |
| English words defined with "commentator": annotator ♦ commentate, Commentation, Commentatorship, Commenter ♦ Explainer, Expositor ♦ Glossarist, Glossator, Glosser, Glossographer ♦ Institutist ♦ Scholiast. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "commentator": creator of advertising ♦ Greek Commentator ♦ voice-over. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "commentator": Institutist. (references) |
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 | Lowell Thomas, author, lecturer, commentator, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mr. Thomas Dias, Portuguese-American radio commentator at the Festival of the Holy Ghost. Novato, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Georg C. Lichtenberg | With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Colombia | On March 16, the FARC kidnaped journalist and international affairs commentator Guillermo Angulo and two other persons in Choachi, Cundinamarca department. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Commentator" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.13% of the time. "Commentator" is used about 345 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.13% | 342 | 15,474 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.87% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 345 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "commentator": radio commentator ♦ sports commentator ♦ television commentator. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "commentator": co-commentator, cricketer-commentator. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
commentator | 28 |
black commentator | 12 |
commentator ethiopian | 6 |
sports commentator | 6 |
commentator murray walker | 5 |
commentator murray racing walker | 5 |
commentator espn | 3 |
bible commentator | 3 |
commentator tennis | 2 |
commentator radio | 2 |
am commentator radio who | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "commentator"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | komentues, komentator. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المعلق التلفزيوني, المعلق الإذاعي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съставител на коментар, коментатор (newsman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 评论员. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vykladatel, reportér (interviewer, reporter), komentátor (broadcaster, narrator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | kommentator (annotator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | commentator, uitlegger (jib arm, overhanging end of gantry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مفسر (Interpreter), سفرنگ گر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | selostaja (reporter), kommentoija, huomioitsija (observer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | commentateur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kommentator (annotator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σχολιαστήσ (annotator, scholiast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מבאר (explaining, explanatory), פרשן (annotator, exegete, expositor, interpreter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kommentátor (glossitis), jegyzetíró. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penyorot (projector, reflector, reviewer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | commentatore (annotator, announcer, newsreader). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 解説者 , 註釈者 (annotator), コミュニケーション科学基礎 "究所 (choral, collaboration, collaborative, collaborator, collage, collagen, collie, column, columnist, COM, COMECON, comedian, comedy, comet, Cominform, comment, comment-out, committee, common, common carrier, common language, common sense, Commonwealth Day, communicate, Communication Science Laboratories, communications intelligence, communications satellite, communicator, communism, communist, Communist Information Bureau, community, community care, community center, community college, community media, community paper, community school, community sports, computer output microfilm system, comsat, corrida, corundum, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, Komintern, Komsomol, Korea, operator in a telemarketing business, stand-alone feature article framed by a box). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かいせつしゃ, コメンテーター , ちゅうしゃくしゃ (annotator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 해설자. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | traghteyr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ommentatorcay comentarista (annotator, broadcaster), comentador (scholiast). (various references) cronicar (annalist, chronicler, columnist), comentator (annotator, expositor, glosser, interpreter), radioreporter, adnotator (annotator). (various references) комментатор (analyst, annotator, expositor, narrator). (various references) komentator. (various references) comentarista (annotator), comentador. (various references) reporter (legman, reporter), kommentator (expositor). (various references) yorumcu (annotator, exegete, exponent, expositor, interpreter), maç spikeri, eleştirmen (corrector, critic, reader, reviewer). (various references) радіокоментатор (newscaster, reporter), коментатор (analyst, annotator, expositor, informer). (various references) nh bình luận người viết chú thích, người viết dẫn giải người tường thuật. (various references) esboniwr (expositor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "commentator": commentators. (additional references) | |
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"Commentator" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: commendatore, commentatort, Kommandatur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "commentator" (pronounced kÄ"muntā'ter) |
| 4 | -t ā' t er | agitator, facilitator, imitator. |
| 3 | -ā' t er | accelerator, accumulator, activator, actuator, administrator, alligator, allocator, alternator, animator, applicator, appropriator, arbitrator, aviator, calculator, carburetor, cogenerator, collaborator, communicator, conciliator, consolidator, coordinator, decorator, defibrillator, demonstrator, denominator, detonator, educator, elevator, escalator, evaporator, excavator, exterminator, fabricator, generator, gladiator, illuminator, illustrator, incinerator, incubator, indicator, infiltrator, innovator, instigator, insulator, integrator, interrogator, investigator, irrigator, legislator, liquidator, litigator, locator, manipulator, mediator, Moderator, modulator, navigator, negotiator, operator, originator, oscillator, percolator, perpetrator, radiator, refrigerator, regulator, renovator, respirator, simulator, speculator, stimulator, syndicator, Terminator, ventilator, violator. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-m-m-n-o-o-r-t-t" | |
-3 letters: amoretto, anteroom, coenamor, commoner, coronate, corotate, monocrat, motorman, motormen, roommate. | |
-4 letters: arnotto, cartoon, comment, contort, coranto, coronae, coronet, enactor, momenta, momento, monomer, montero, ottoman, rattoon, romance, tearoom, tomenta, tonearm, torment. | |
-5 letters: ammono, atoner, attorn, canter, cantor, carmen, carnet, carton, centra, coater, comate, common, contra, cooter, cornea, cornet, corona, cottae, cottar, cotter, cotton, craton. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-m-m-n-o-o-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: commentators. | |
+5 letters: compartmentation. | |
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