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# commentator

noun (a commentator, commentators)

«commentator» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A person who describes a sports match or event as it happens, on TV, radio or online. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commentator/#m1)
2. A person who writes or speaks about news and gives opinions on it: a political commentator. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commentator/#m2)

### In the lessons

In everyday life, football, cricket and rugby commentators describe the action on TV or radio. In English lessons pupils sometimes write or perform commentary. Phrases: sports commentator, football commentator, running commentary.

### Examples

- The commentator shouted "Goal!" [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commentator/#x1)
- The cricket commentator explained the rules for new viewers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commentator/#x2)
- She wants to be a sports commentator on the radio. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commentator/#x3)
- The commentator said the score was 3–1 with ten minutes left. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commentator/#x4)
- My little brother gave a running commentary of the whole game. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commentator/#x5)
- Political commentators argued about the new law on TV. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commentator/#x6)

### Note

Countable. The verb is commentate (or comment); the activity is commentary. A commentator gives the play-by-play; a pundit gives expert opinions.

## In Jewish tradition

Interpretation: Rashi is the best-known commentator on the Torah and Talmud. Commentators explain a text's meaning, and for Sefer Yetzirah they offered different readings of its hard passages. In the primary lessons: In everyday life, football, cricket and rugby commentators describe the action on TV or radio. In English lessons pupils sometimes write or perform commentary. Phrases: sports commentator, football commentator, running commentary.

### Examples

- E.) See treatise Berachoth, p. 55 a, where the commentator Rashi referred to the book Yezirah. (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/commentator/#x1)
- ThetextgivesonlyRTzUAV ShUB— "currendo et redeundo," but the commentators have generally considered this to be a quotation from Ezekiel i. 14, referred to H ChIVT, the living creatures, kerubic forms. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/commentator/#x2)
- In another passage the commentator says. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/commentator/#x3)

### Note

Countable. The verb is commentate (or comment); the activity is commentary. A commentator gives the play-by-play; a pundit gives expert opinions.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «commentator» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commentator/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«commentator» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/commentator.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «commentator» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/commentator/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«commentator» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/commentator.html) on Mova free.