commentator as a noun: - 1
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commentator
noun
1 commentator
An expert who observes and comments on something.
synonym: observer.
Roget 595:
dissertation,
treatise,
essay;
thesis,
theme;
monograph,
tract,
tractate†,
tractation†;
discourse,
memoir,
disquisition,
lecture,
sermon,
homily,
pandect†;
excursus.
commentary,
review,
critique,
criticism,
article;
leader,
leading article;
editorial;
running commentary.
investigation
etc.
(inquiry)
461;
study
etc.
(consideration)
451;
discussion
etc.
(reasoning)
476;
exposition
etc.
(explanation)
522.
commentator,
critic,
essayist,
pamphleteer.
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Roget 524:
interpreter;
expositor,
expounder,
exponent,
explainer;
demonstrator.
scholiast,
commentator,
annotator;
metaphrast†,
paraphrast†;
glossarist†,
prolocutor.
spokesman,
speaker,
mouthpiece.
dragoman,
courier,
valet de place,
cicerone,
showman;
oneirocritic†;
(Edipus; oracle)
&c..
513
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Dutch: observant, observator, waarnemer
Polish: obserwator
2 commentator
A writer who reports and analyzes events of the day.
synonym: reviewer.
Roget 480:
result,
conclusion,
upshot;
deduction,
inference,
ergotism [Med.];
illation;
corollary,
porism†;
moral.
estimation,
valuation,
appreciation,
judication†;
dijudication†,
adjudication;
arbitrament,
arbitrement†,
arbitration;
assessment,
ponderation†;
valorization.
award,
estimate;
review,
criticism,
critique,
notice,
report.
decision,
determination,
judgment,
finding,
verdict,
sentence,
decree;
findings of fact;
findings of law;
res judicata [Lat.].
plebiscite,
voice,
casting vote;
vote
etc.
(choice)
609;
opinion
etc.
(belief)
484;
good judgment
etc.
(wisdom)
498.
judge,
umpire;
arbiter,
arbitrator;
asessor,
referee.
censor,
reviewer,
critic;
connoisseur;
commentator
etc.
524;
inspector,
inspecting officer.
twenty-twenty hindsight
[judgment after the fact];
armchair general,
monday morning quarterback.
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Moby thesaurus: AFTRA, DJ, MC, allegorist, anchor man, annotator, announcer, book reviewer, broadcaster, captious critic, carper, caviler, censor, censurer, cicerone, clarifier, cognoscente, commenter, connoisseur, critic.
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