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comment

noun · verb · 15 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmɛnt/
  • British, Scotland, Southern, Standard: /ˈkɔmɛnt/
  • General-American: /ˈkɑmɛnt/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australia: /ˈkɔment/
  • New-Zealand: /ˈkɒment/
  • New-Zealand: [ˈkɔ̟mɪnt] ~ [ˈkɞ̠mɪnt]
  • India: /kə.menʈ/
  • India, also: /kɔː.menʈ/
  • CMU ARPABET: K AA1 M EH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A spoken or written remark.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • I have no comment on that.
  • Pay attention to the teacher's comments in the margin of your marked essay.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The act of commenting.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: rheme

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

verb

Meaning 5

To remark.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

verb

Meaning 6

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Examples

  • He commented about your proposal.
  • The movie comments on race relations.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

To comment or remark on.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete, transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

To insert comments into (source code).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software

Examples

  • I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he wrote an extended comment on the proposal

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: commentary

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: statement

Narrower terms: Midrash, note, annotation, notation

11

noun

Meaning 11

a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: remark, input

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: statement

Narrower terms: ad-lib, courtesy, gambit, ploy, obiter dictum, passing comment, mention, reference, observation, reflection, reflexion, rib, wisecrack, crack, sally, quip, shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibe, conversation stopper, stopper, platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace, bromide, zinger

12

noun

Meaning 12

a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the divorce caused much gossip

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gossip, scuttlebutt

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: report, account

Narrower terms: earful, rumor, rumour, hearsay, grapevine, pipeline, word of mouth, scandal, dirt, malicious gossip, talk, talk of the town

13

verb

Meaning 13

provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • He annotated on what his teacher had written

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gloss, annotate

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: rede, interpret

14

verb

Meaning 14

explain or interpret something

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: explain, explicate

Narrower terms: second-guess, disk-jockey, disc-jockey, DJ

15

verb

Meaning 15

make or write a comment on

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he commented the paper of his colleague

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: notice, remark, point out

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: note, observe, mention, remark

Narrower terms: knock, criticize, criticise, pick apart, wisecrack, kibitz, kibbitz

History

Etymology

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

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

Across languages

Translations

176 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: koment — spoken remark
  • Arabic: تَعْلِيق (taʕlīq) — spoken remark
  • Arabic: مَلْحُوظَة (malḥūẓa) — spoken remark
  • Armenian: մեկնաբանություն (meknabanutʻyun) — spoken remark
  • Azerbaijani: yozum — spoken remark
  • Azerbaijani: izah — spoken remark
  • Azerbaijani: fikir — spoken remark
  • Azerbaijani: şərh — spoken remark
  • Basque: irazkin — spoken remark
  • Belarusian: камента́р (kamjentár) — spoken remark
  • Breton: evezhiadenn — spoken remark
  • Bulgarian: комента́р (komentár) — spoken remark
  • Bulgarian: беле́жка (beléžka) — spoken remark
  • Catalan: comentari — spoken remark
  • Chinese Mandarin: 評論 /评论 (pínglùn) — spoken remark
  • Crimean Tatar: tefsir — spoken remark
  • Czech: komentář — spoken remark
  • Danish: kommentar — spoken remark
  • Danish: bemærkning — spoken remark
  • Dutch: commentaar — spoken remark
  • Esperanto: komento — spoken remark
  • Estonian: kommentaar — spoken remark
  • Finnish: kommentti — spoken remark
  • Finnish: huomautus — spoken remark
  • Finnish: välihuomautus — spoken remark
  • French: commentaire — spoken remark
  • Galician: comentario — spoken remark
  • Galician: comento — spoken remark
  • Georgian: კომენტარი (ḳomenṭari) — spoken remark
  • German: Kommentar — spoken remark
  • Greek: σχόλιο (schólio) — spoken remark
  • Greek: παρατήρηση (paratírisi) — spoken remark
  • Ancient Greek: σχόλιον (skhólion) — spoken remark
  • Hindi: टिप्पणी (ṭippaṇī) — spoken remark
  • Hungarian: megjegyzés — spoken remark
  • Hungarian: hozzászólás — spoken remark
  • Hungarian: komment — spoken remark
  • Icelandic: athugasemd — spoken remark
  • Ido: komenturo — spoken remark
  • Indonesian: komentar — spoken remark
  • Italian: commento — spoken remark
  • Italian: osservazione — spoken remark
  • Japanese: コメント (komento) — spoken remark
  • Japanese: 論評 (ronpyō) — spoken remark
  • Judeo-Italian: דִיטוֹ — spoken remark
  • Kazakh: түсіндірме (tüsındırme) — spoken remark
  • Kazakh: түсінік (tüsınık) — spoken remark
  • Korean: 논평 (nonpyeong) — spoken remark
  • Korean: 론평 (ronpyeong) — spoken remark
  • Korean: 코멘트 (komenteu) — spoken remark
  • Korean: 댓글 (daetgeul) — spoken remark
  • Kyrgyz: түшүндүрмө (tüşündürmö) — spoken remark
  • Kyrgyz: чечмелөө (cecmelöö) — spoken remark
  • Kyrgyz: комментарий (kommentariy) — spoken remark
  • Latvian: komentārs — spoken remark
  • Lithuanian: komentaras — spoken remark
  • Low German: Kommentar — spoken remark
  • Macedonian: комента́р (komentár) — spoken remark
  • Māori: huatau — spoken remark
  • Māori: pito kōrero — spoken remark
  • Māori: tākupu — spoken remark
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kommentar — spoken remark
  • Norwegian Bokmål: merknad — spoken remark
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kommentar — spoken remark
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: merknad — spoken remark
  • Iranian Persian: نَظَر (nazar) — spoken remark
  • Iranian Persian: تَفْسیر (tafsir) — spoken remark
  • Polish: komentarz — spoken remark
  • Polish: spostrzeżenie — spoken remark
  • Polish: uwaga — spoken remark
  • Portuguese: comentário — spoken remark
  • Romanian: comentariu — spoken remark
  • Russian: коммента́рий (kommentárij) — spoken remark
  • Russian: замеча́ние (zamečánije) — spoken remark
  • Russian: ко́ммент (kómment) — spoken remark
  • Scottish Gaelic: abairt — spoken remark
  • Serbo-Croatian: комѐнта̄р — spoken remark
  • Serbo-Croatian: о̀паска — spoken remark
  • Serbo-Croatian: komèntār — spoken remark
  • Serbo-Croatian: òpaska — spoken remark
  • Sicilian: cummentu — spoken remark
  • Slovak: komentár — spoken remark
  • Slovene: komentar — spoken remark
  • Spanish: comentario — spoken remark
  • Swedish: kommentar — spoken remark
  • Tajik: шарҳ (šarh) — spoken remark
  • Tajik: эзоҳ (ezoh) — spoken remark
  • Tajik: тафсир (tafsir) — spoken remark
  • Telugu: వ్యాఖ్య (vyākhya) — spoken remark
  • Thai: คําติชม (kam-dtì-chom) — spoken remark
  • Turkish: yorum — spoken remark
  • Turkish: tefsir — spoken remark
  • Turkmen: düşündiriş — spoken remark
  • Ukrainian: комента́р (komentár) — spoken remark
  • Uzbek: izoh — spoken remark
  • Uzbek: mulohaza — spoken remark
  • Uzbek: fikr — spoken remark
  • Vietnamese: lời bình luận — spoken remark
  • Welsh: sylwad — spoken remark
  • Spanish: comento — the act of commenting
  • Bulgarian: комента́р (komentár) — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Catalan: comentari — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Chinese Mandarin: 註解 /注解 (zhùjiě) — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Czech: komentář — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Danish: kommentar — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Dutch: commentaar — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Esperanto: komento — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Esperanto: komentario — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Finnish: kommentti — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • German: Kommentar — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Greek: σχόλιο (schólio) — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Hungarian: megjegyzés — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Icelandic: athugasemd — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Italian: commento — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Persian: کامنت (kâment) — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Polish: komentarz — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Portuguese: comentário — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Russian: коммента́рий (kommentárij) — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Serbo-Croatian: комѐнта̄р — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Serbo-Croatian: komèntār — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Spanish: comentario — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Swedish: kommentar — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Turkish: açıklama — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Vietnamese: lời phụ chú — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Vietnamese: lời chú thích — programming: remark not affecting behavior
  • Arabic: عَلَّقَ (ʕallaqa) — to remark
  • Armenian: մեկնաբանել (meknabanel) — to remark
  • Basque: irazkindu — to remark
  • Belarusian: каменці́раваць (kamjencíravacʹ) — to remark
  • Bulgarian: коментирам (komentiram) — to remark
  • Catalan: comentar — to remark
  • Chinese Mandarin: 評論 /评论 (pínglùn) — to remark
  • Czech: komentovat — to remark
  • Danish: kommentere — to remark
  • Dutch: becommentariëren — to remark
  • Esperanto: komenti — to remark
  • Finnish: kommentoida — to remark
  • Finnish: huomauttaa — to remark
  • Finnish: ottaa kantaa — to remark
  • French: commenter — to remark
  • German: kommentieren — to remark
  • Greek: σχολιάζω (scholiázo) — to remark
  • Hebrew: הֵעִיר (he'ír) — to remark
  • Hungarian: hozzászól — to remark
  • Hungarian: megjegyez — to remark
  • Indonesian: mengomentari — to remark
  • Japanese: 論評する (ronpyō-suru) — to remark
  • Macedonian: коментира (komentira) — to remark
  • Māori: huatau — to remark
  • Māori: tākupu — to remark
  • Norwegian: kommentere — to remark
  • Polish: komentować — to remark
  • Portuguese: comentar — to remark
  • Portuguese: mencionar — to remark
  • Russian: комменти́ровать (kommentírovatʹ) — to remark
  • Russian: прокомменти́ровать (prokommentírovatʹ) — to remark
  • Slovak: komentovať — to remark
  • Spanish: comentar — to remark
  • Swedish: kommentera — to remark
  • Telugu: వ్యాఖ్యానించు (vyākhyāniñcu) — to remark
  • Thai: ติชม (dtì-chom) — to remark
  • Ukrainian: коментува́ти (komentuváty) — to remark
  • Vietnamese: bình luận — to remark
  • Catalan: comentar — programming: to insert comments
  • Czech: komentovat — programming: to insert comments
  • Danish: kommentere — programming: to insert comments
  • Dutch: becommentariëren — programming: to insert comments
  • Finnish: kommentoida — programming: to insert comments
  • German: Kommentare einfügen — programming: to insert comments
  • Greek: σχολιάζω (scholiázo) — programming: to insert comments
  • Polish: komentować — programming: to insert comments
  • Polish: zakomentować — programming: to insert comments
  • Portuguese: comentar — programming: to insert comments
  • Russian: комменти́ровать (kommentírovatʹ) — programming: to insert comments
  • Russian: закомменти́ровать (zakommentírovatʹ) — programming: to insert comments
  • Swedish: kommentera — programming: to insert comments
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