commentary

noun

An oral relation of an event, especially broadcast by television or radio, as it occurs.

A series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work.

(usually in the plural) A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum.

Roots

mensment- · Latin · mind

Synonyms for commentary

commentv scholiumn exegesisn marginalian critiquen editorialadj analysisn noten criticismn epiloguen

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