Associations to the word «Commentary»

Wiktionary

COMMENTARY, noun. A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.
COMMENTARY, noun. A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural; as, Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War.
COMMENTARY, noun. An oral description of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.

Dictionary definition

COMMENTARY, noun. A written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal".

Wise words

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis