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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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats