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