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Definitions: Reviewer |
ReviewerNoun1. Someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication. 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 "reviewer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1788. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Biographical Satire | REVIEWER, The Book, he is the fellow who said a chef-d'oeuvre like Who Was Who should be used for ballast. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Occupations | Reviews insurance applications to ensure that all questions have been answered. Corresponds with sales personnel to inform them of status of application being processed, and to encourage prompt delivery of policies to policyholders. May collect initial premiums and issue receipts. May compile periodic reports on new business for management. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ReviewerSynonyms: commentator (n), reader (n), referee (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Judgment | Censor, reviewer, critic; connoisseur; commentator; inspector, inspecting officer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Reviewer |
| Specialty definitions using "reviewer": APPEALS REVIEWER, VETERAN ♦ bullschildt ♦ CHART CALCULATOR, CORELLI ♦ final-application reviewer ♦ POLICY-VALUE CALCULATOR ♦ RATE REVIEWER, REVIEWER ♦ touring counselor, TRAVEL COUNSELOR, AUTOMOBILE CLUB, traveling clerk ♦ ZANY. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Reviewer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.06% of the time. "Reviewer" is used about 212 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) | 99.06% | 210 | 20,939 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.94% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 212 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "reviewer": book reviewer. Additional references. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
book reviewer | 25 | become book reviewer | 3 |
movie reviewer | 17 | job movie reviewer | 3 |
dvd reviewer | 13 | music reviewer | 3 |
reviewer roger | 10 | become a movie reviewer | 2 |
reviewer | 9 | book pay reviewer seeking site that | 2 |
from hell mutant reviewer | 7 | citizenship reviewer | 2 |
hulk puny reviewer smash | 6 | nclex reviewer | 2 |
grant reviewer | 6 | peer reviewer | 2 |
game reviewer | 4 | hardware reviewer | 2 |
book job reviewer | 4 | medical reviewer site | 2 |
ece reviewer | 3 | nursing reviewer | 2 |
reviewer upcat | 3 | game job reviewer | 2 |
restaurant reviewer | 3 | book reviewer wanted | 2 |
nurse reviewer | 3 | government peer reviewer us | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "reviewer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | recensues (reader). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ناقد أدبي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | рецензент (referee), критик (critic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 評論家 (critic), 评论者. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | recenzent, posuzovatel, kritik (critic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | منقدادبی , بازبین گر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | arvostelija (critic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vérificatrice, préposé à la vérification des commandes, critique (review). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kritiker (censors, critic, critics, detractor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βιβλιοκριτήσ (book reviewer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מבקר ספרותי, סוקר (scanner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bíráló (appraising, censorious, critical, holder, nagging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | penyorot (commentator, projector, reflector), pengulas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | recensore, critico (climacteric, critic, critical, crucial, judge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 評者 (critic), レバレッジ効果 (left, left wing, leverage effect, referee, referee's position, reference, reference book, reference service, reflector, reflex camera, repertoire, repertory, repertory system, review, revue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | レビューワー , ひょうしゃ (critic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 비평가 (Critic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | baghteyr (criticizer, surveyor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eviewerray crítico (argumentative, assailant, climacteric, critic, critical, crucial, serious). (various references) referent (reader), redactor (editor, reader, redactor, sub-editor, writer), recenzent (reader), critic literar. (various references) рецензент (critic), обозреватель (columnist, observer). (various references) recezent, prikazivač. (various references) crítico (alarming, censor, censorious, critic, critical, grave, knocker, serious, vital). (various references) recensent (critic, critik). (various references) eleştirmen (commentator, corrector, critic, reader), eleştirici (argumentative, assailant, assailer, censorious, critic, critical, faultfinder, faultfinding, judicial, uncomplimentary). (various references) критик (critic), оглядач (analyst, columnist, observer). (various references) adolygydd, adolygwr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "reviewer": reviewers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "reviewer": previewer. (additional references) | |
Words containing "reviewer": previewers. (additional references) | |
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"Reviewer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: previewer, reveiver, reviewe, reviewee. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "reviewer" (pronounced rēvyuw"er) |
| 4 | -v y uw" er | viewer. |
| 3 | -y uw" er | ewer, fewer, Hewer, skewer. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rereview. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-r-r-v-w" | |
-1 letter: reverie. | |
-2 letters: eerier, reiver, revere, review, rewire, riever, verier, viewer, weever. | |
-3 letters: eerie, reeve, reive, river, wirer, wiver, wrier. | |
-4 letters: ever, ewer, rive, veer, vier, view, weer, weir, were, wire, wive. | |
-5 letters: ere, err, eve, ewe, ire, ree, rei, rev, vee, vie, wee. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-r-r-v-w" | |
+1 letter: prereview, previewer, rereviews, reviewers. | |
+2 letters: previewers, rereviewed. | |
+3 letters: interviewer, reinterview, rereviewing. | |
+4 letters: interviewers, overwintered, preinterview, reinterviews. | |
+5 letters: preinterviews, reinterviewed, whithersoever. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 76 69 65 77 65 72 |
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