Commentator
['kɒmənteɪtə] or ['kɑmən'tetɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Annotator, expositor, writer of comments.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Interpreter, explainer, note-maker, scholiast, expositor, glossary, elucidator
ANT:Mystifier, misinterpreter, puzzler, enigmatist, Oedipus
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Examples
- As to his blood, I suppose the family quarterings are three cuttle-fish sable, and a commentator rampant. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The work of Pe urbach had as commentator the first teacher in astronomy of Copernicus (1473-1543). Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The learned Dominican Albertus Magnus (1193-1280) was a careful student of Aristotle as well as of his Arabian commentators. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- His doctrine of the social myth has seemed to many commentators one of those silly paradoxes that only a revolutionary syndicalist and Frenchman could have put forward. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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