comment

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   They wrote an extended comment on the proposal.

2. 2
   noun

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

   The student made a comment on the weather.

3. 3
   verb

   to make or write a comment on

   I commented on the paper of my colleague.

4. 4
   noun

   A spoken or written remark.

   I have no comment on that.

5. 5
   noun

   The act of commenting.

   People bled to death like gentlemen in an operating room or expired without comment in an oxygen tent.

6. 6
   verb

   To remark.

   “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

7. 7
   verb

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

   He commented about your proposal.

8. 8
   verb

   To comment or remark on.

   […]who have expounded Scripture out of its Senses, and have so Commented the Laws thereof

Etymology

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