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Another word for commentator

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Noun

  1. A person who evaluates and reports on the worth of something

      1. One who specializes especially professionally in the evaluation and appreciation of literary or artistic works:
      2. A person who indulges in faultfinding and censure
      3. Such a person whose profession is to write or broadcast such judgments of books, music, paintings, sculpture, plays, films, television, etc., as for a newspaper
      1. One who makes estimates as to worth, quality, or fitness:
      2. A person designated to determine the winner in a contest, settle a controversy, etc.
      3. An elected or appointed public official with authority to hear and decide cases in a court of law
      1. A person who reviews; esp., one who reviews books, plays, etc. as for a newspaper
      2. A person who writes critical reviews for a newspaper or other publication; a critic
    See also:

    value

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Another word for commentator

Noun
      1. A member of an aircraft crew, other than a pilot, with certain specialized duties and a special rating (aircraft observer)
      2. One who observes:
      3. An official, usually a member of a group, sent by a UN committee to collect and report facts on the situation in a special area
      1. (Mathematics) a mathematician who studies real analysis
      2. One who performs systems analysis.
      3. A person who analyzes
      1. A self-professed expert in a particular field, especially as called upon to provide comment or opinion in the media; a commentator, a critic. [from 19th c.]
      2. A learned person in India; someone with knowledge of Sanskrit, philosophy, religion and law; a Hindu scholar. [from 17th c.]
      3. A learned person.
    See also:

    author

    critic

    reporter

    writer

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Sentence Examples

  • The most recent and elaborate commentator even calls him an "ethnologist."

  • The earliest commentator of note was Sir Edward Coke, who published his Second Institute, which deals with Magna Carta, by order of the Long Parliament in 1642.

  • about 1174) of Ramerupt, commentator and Talmudist.

  • Of the same school were Menahem ben Simeon of Posquieres, a commentator, who died about the end of the 12th century, and Moses ben Jacob of Coucy (13th century), author of the Semag (book of precepts, positive and negative) a very popular and valuable halakhic work.

  • He is important as the teacher of Proclus, and, like Plutarch and Proclus, as a commentator on Plato and Aristotle.

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