Word.ws English Dictionary

color commentator

color commentator noun: at a sporting event, a member of the radio or television announcing team who assists a play-by-play announcer. Provides insight into strategy, player performance, background information, etc., and often light humor.

Noun

color commentator (plural color commentators)

  1. (US) At a sporting event, a member of the radio or television announcing team who assists a play-by-play announcer. Provides insight into strategy, player performance, background information, etc., and often light humor.

Synonyms of color commentator

Forms of color commentator

pluralcolor commentators
alternative formcolour commentator

Origin of color commentator

From color (“detail or flavour”) + commentator.

Questions about color commentator

What does color commentator mean?
Color commentator means at a sporting event, a member of the radio or television announcing team who assists a play-by-play announcer. Provides insight into strategy, player performance, background information, etc., and often light humor.
What part of speech is color commentator?
Color commentator is a noun.
What is the plural of color commentator?
The plural of color commentator is color commentators.

Words near color commentator in the dictionary

  1. color coded
  2. color codes
  3. color coding
  4. color commentaries
  5. color commentary
  6. color commentator
  7. color commentators
  8. color compass
  9. color constancy
  10. color coordinate
  11. color coordinate system

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: color commentator (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “color commentator.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/color_commentator. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.