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comment.

A spoken or written remark.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkɒmɛnt/Received-Pronunciation/ˈkɔmɛnt/British, Scotland, Southern, Standard/ˈkɑmɛnt/General-American/ˈkɔment/Australia
  1. A spoken or written remark.

    countable · uncountable
    I have no comment on that.
    Pay attention to the teacher's comments in the margin of your marked essay.
  2. The act of commenting.

    uncountable
  3. The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.

    countable · uncountable
  4. A remark embedded in source code in such a way that it will be ignored by the compiler or interpreter, typically to help people to understand the code.

    countable · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Middle English coment, comment, from Old French coment (“commentary”), from Late Latin commentum (“comment, interpretation”), from Classical Latin commentum (“invention, fabrication”).

verb/ˈkɒmɛnt/Received-Pronunciation/ˈkɔmɛnt/British, Scotland, Southern, Standard/ˈkɑmɛnt/General-American/ˈkɔment/Australia
  1. To remark.

    transitive
  2. To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.

    intransitive
    He commented about your proposal.
    The movie comments on race relations.
  3. To comment or remark on.

    obsolete · transitive
  4. To insert comments into (source code).

    transitive
    I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.
  5. To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

From Middle English commenten, comenten, from Latin commentārī (“to consider thoroughly, think over, discuss, write upon”).

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