commentators
- 1Plural of commentator.
The broadcast commentators disagreed about whether the goal should have counted.
Political commentators spent the week dissecting the candidate's surprise announcement.
Note
A regular plural with an unusually wide range behind it. In legal history the commentators were the comparatively innovative fourteenth-century European jurists, set against the earlier glossators. In scripture study they explain biblical passages, and on air they describe a match as it happens. A modifier such as broadcast, political or biblical tells the reader which group is meant. The verb is plural: commentators agree, never agrees.
commentators is a form of commentator
commentator, noun: A person who gives a live, running description of a public event (especially a sporting match) for a mass-media audience. Full entry
- Forms
- commentatorcommentators plural
- Spelling
- commentator → commentators: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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