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, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley