Words Like COMMENTARY

We have put together a list of words that are similar to COMMENTARY.

5 Alternative Words Similar to commentary

1 Comment Noun      Synonym Words Like Comment
2 Statement Noun      Synonym Words Like Statement
3 Annotation Noun      Hyponym Words Like Annotation
4 Notation Noun      Hyponym Words Like Notation
5 Note Noun      Hyponym Words Like Note

1 examples of commentary

1 Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War

10 definitions of commentary

1 A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work.
2 A brief account of transactions or events written hastily, as if for a memorandum; -- usually in the plural.
3 a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material
4 A series of explanations or interpretations.
5 An expository treatise or series of annotations; an exegesis. Often used in the plural.
6 An apt explanation or illustration: a scandal that is a sad commentary on national politics.
7 A personal narrative; a memoir. Often used in the plural.
8 A series or collection of comments or annotations; especially, an explanation or elucidation of difficult and obscure passages in a book or other writing, and consideration of questions suggested by them, arranged in the same order as in the text or writing examined; an explanatory essay or treatise: as, a commentary on the Bible. A textual commentary explains the author's meaning, sentence by sentence.
9 Anything that serves to explain or illustrate; an exemplification.
10 A historical narrative; an explanatory record of particular transactions: as, the Commentaries of Cæsar.
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