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# commentator

«commentator» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who describes a sports match or event as it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a commentator, commentators)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who describes a sports match or event as it happens, on TV, radio or online. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commentator/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commentator/#x1)
- The cricket commentator explained the rules for new viewers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commentator/#x2)
- She wants to be a sports commentator on the radio. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commentator/#x4)
- My little brother gave a running commentary of the whole game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commentator/#x5)
- Political commentators argued about the new law on TV. [tree →](https://md.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 the corpora

- [A news report tells what happened; an opinion piece or commentator says what someone thinks about it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/10-the-news-who-makes-it-and-how/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «commentator» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/commentator/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.