Commentary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A series of explanations or interpretations.
  • n. An expository treatise or series of annotations; an exegesis. Often used in the plural.
  • n. An apt explanation or illustration: a scandal that is a sad commentary on national politics.
  • n. A personal narrative; a memoir. Often used in the plural.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
  • n. A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.
  • n. An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work.
  • n. A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A series or collection of comments or annotations; especially, an explanation or elucidation of difficult and obscure passages in a book or other writing, and consideration of questions suggested by them, arranged in the same order as in the text or writing examined; an explanatory essay or treatise: as, a commentary on the Bible. A textual commentary explains the author's meaning, sentence by sentence.
  • n. Anything that serves to explain or illustrate; an exemplification.
  • n. A historical narrative; an explanatory record of particular transactions: as, the Commentaries of Cæsar.
  • n. Synonyms See remark, n.
  • To write notes or comments.
  • To comment upon.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    statement   
    Hyponym
    annotation    Midrash    notation    note   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    commen   
    Same Context
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    essay    comment    writing    biography    criticism