commentator

[ kom-uhn-tey-ter ]

noun

1. a person who discusses news, sports events, weather, or the like, as on television or radio.
2. a person who makes commentaries.

commentator

/ ˈkɒmənˌteɪtə /

noun

1. a person who provides a spoken commentary for a broadcast, film, etc, esp of a sporting event
2. a person who writes notes on a text, event, etc

Other Words From

• com·men·ta·to·ri·al [k, uh, -men-t, uh, -, tawr, -ee-, uh, l, -, tohr, -], adjective
• com·menta·tori·al·ly adverb
• super·commen·tator noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of commentator¹

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

Smartmatic’s lawsuit may test whether a network can be held financially responsible for things said by political commentators, or even by their guests.

From Washington Post

The network’s lineup of anchors, hosts, producers and commentators was reshuffled, too.

From Washington Post

Witten first retired after the 2017 season, and he spent 2018 as a color commentator on ESPN’s “Monday Night Football.”

From Washington Post

As many commentators have noted, if nothing else Musk’s celebrity will give the industry much-needed publicity.

From Singularity Hub 

He also has worked as a paid part-time political and business commentator on Fox News.

From Washington Post

He appears frequently on television as a political commentator.

From The Daily Beast

This came across in the Showtime Omit the Logic documentary—in which you were a commentator—and it comes across here.

From The Daily Beast

But one commentator—who also happens to have been cast in the film—has his own unique feelings about the movie.

From The Daily Beast

Yet Palin—a former local news sports reporter and a current Fox News political commentator—is undeniably telegenic.

From The Daily Beast

“I think the timing is incredibly regrettable,” New Zealand political commentator David Farrar tells The Daily Beast.

From The Daily Beast

Doubtless the commentator habit is fixed in the nature of man; but it was pre-eminently mediaeval.

From Project Gutenberg

William Lowth died; a celebrated English theological writer and commentator.

From Project Gutenberg

Some scornful commentator has called this doggerel; but I would that all doggerel were as interesting.

From Project Gutenberg

I must now give my reasons, as every preceding commentator has given up the passage as hopeless.

From Project Gutenberg

Now he appears as a commentator of texts, who claims a monopoly in the solution of all questions of faith and ethics.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• analyst
• announcer
• correspondent
• critic
• observer
• pundit
• reviewer
• sportscaster
• writer