commentary
Academic Word List, sublist 3.
About 12.85 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
- noun A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum.
Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War
- noun An oral relation of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.
We listened to the football commentary while watching the match.
Similar words
comment annotation editorial notation quote commentator note narrative word phd
Often followed by
on of by to and in upon is that
Word family
comment commentaries commentator commentators commented commenting comments
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