English Online Dictionary. What means commentary? What does commentary mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle French commentaire, from Latin commentārius, commentārium (“notebook”), compare French commentaire. See comment.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈkɒm.ən.tə.ɹi/, /ˈkɒm.ən.tɹi/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɑ.mənˌtɛɹ.i/
- (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈkɔm.ən.tə.ɹi/, /ˈkɒm.ən.tə.ɹi/
Noun
commentary (countable and uncountable, plural commentaries)
- A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
- (usually in the plural) A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum.
- An oral relation of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.
Synonyms
- (series of comments or annotations): scholia (ancient & medieval European works); secondary source
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Further reading
- “commentary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.