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{
"term": "commentator",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a person who describes an event while it is happening, especially on television or radio",
"sensetop": "commentator (on something)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a **television/sports commentator**"
},
{
"text": "He's one of the great sports commentators of our time."
}
],
"topics": ["Sports: other sports", "TV, radio and news"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["sports", "basketball", "cricket"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a person who is an expert on a particular subject and talks or writes about it on television or radio, in a newspaper or on social media",
"sensetop": "commentator (on something)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She's a political commentator for the BBC."
},
{
"text": "Political commentators are predicting that the minister will have to resign."
},
{
"text": "a commentator on current affairs"
},
{
"text": "He is best known as a commentator on culture and the arts."
}
],
"topics": ["Literature and writing"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["influential", "independent", "foreign"],
"preposition": ["commentator on"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɒmənteɪtə(r)/",
"audio": "co/commentator/commentator__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːmənteɪtər/",
"audio": "co/commentator/commentator__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin, from commentari, frequentative of comminisci ‘devise’."
}