commentator
Americannoun
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a person who discusses news, sports events, weather, or the like, as on television or radio.
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a person who makes commentaries.
noun
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a person who provides a spoken commentary for a broadcast, film, etc, esp of a sporting event
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a person who writes notes on a text, event, etc
Other Word Forms
- commentatorial adjective
- commentatorially adverb
- supercommentator noun
Etymology
Origin of commentator
1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin commentātor interpreter, equivalent to commentā ( rī ) to interpret ( Latin: to think about, prepare, discuss, write, perhaps frequentative of comminīscī to devise; comment ) + Latin -tor -tor
Example Sentences
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“He has a lot of haters,” said Rupak Ghose, who advised hedge funds as an investment banker and is now a finance-industry commentator.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
Former conservative commentator Steve Hilton said his family had a small farm in Hungary, which they fled because of communism.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
Political commentator Kusal Perera said the crisis also presented scope to boost productivity across the state sector.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
Sheldon Jacobson, an engineering professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a regular commentator on the aviation industry, tells me that the capacity issues are directly attributable to the lack of TSA pay.
From Slate • Mar. 24, 2026
At my son’s high school graduation a week earlier, I had listened as a self-important cable news commentator droned on for thirty minutes about the future of the media in a digital world.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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