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commentary(dictionary)

commentary (iou)



commentary noun & verb. LME.
[Latin commentarius, -ium use as noun (sc. liber book, volumen volume) of adjective from commentari: see COMMENT verb, -ARY1.]
A. noun.
An expository treatise; a series of comments or annotations on a text. LME.
b. Chiefly Hist. A memoir, an informal historical record. Usu. in pl. L15.
c. A spoken description of an event, performance, etc., accompanying a radio or television broadcast, a cinema film, etc. L19.
running commentary: see RUNNING ppl adjective.
transf. & fig. A comment, a remark, an illustration. M16.
T. Gunn There will be no speech from / the scaffold, the scene must / be its own commentary.
Exposition, annotation, systematic commenting, acting as commentator. M17.
b. verb.
verb intrans. Comment (up)on. Only in E17.
verb trans. Annotate. rare. M17.