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commentor

commentor is the alternative form of commenter.

Meaning of commenter

Noun

commenter (plural commenters)

  1. One who comments.
    • There are faculty advisers on El’s theater crew who balk at using “they” for one person; classmates at El’s public school on the outskirts of Boston who insist El can’t be “multiple people”; and commenters on El’s social media feeds who dismiss nonbinary gender identities like androgyne (a...2019 May 29, Amy Harmon, “Which Box Do You Check? Some States Are Offering a Nonbinary Option”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Jun 2019
    Synonyms:
    commentator

Forms of commentor

pluralcommentors

Origin of commentor

From Middle English commentor, equivalent to comment (verb) + -or.

Questions about commentor

What is commentor the alternative form of?
Commentor is the alternative form of commenter.

Words near commentor in the dictionary

  1. commentize
  2. commentized
  3. commentizes
  4. commentizing
  5. commentless
  6. commentor
  7. commentors
  8. comments
  9. comments out
  10. commentworthy
  11. commerce

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commentor (page history and authors); commenter (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.

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