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presenter

UK/pɹɪˈzɛntə(ɹ)/US/pɹɪˈzɛntə(ɹ)/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,355 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: presenters

A presenter is the person who introduces and hosts a programme. A television presenter, the weather presenter, a new presenter.

It is the British word for what America calls a host or an anchor. The job is not reading alone: a presenter is working from an earpiece, keeping to the second, and improvising whenever the timing slips.

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Definitions of presenter

  1. 1nounpresenterThe person who introduces and hosts a programme.B2+

    “The TV presenter smiled at the camera and introduced the next guest.”

presenter is a worker.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    praesens

  2. Old French

    present

  3. Middle English

    present

  4. English

    present

  5. English, today

    presenter

Built from

  • praesum · Latin — to be present
  • sum · Latin — to be

From present + -er. present comes from Middle English present, from Old French present, from Latin praesens, present participle of praesum (“to be present”), from Latin prae- (“pre-”) + sum (“to be”). andweard.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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presenter in the wild

  • Davina Lucy Pascale McCall is an English television presenter.

    Davina McCall

  • On 4 July 2016, he announced that he would be stepping down as presenter of Top Gear.

    Chris Evans (presenter)

  • Matthew James Baker is a British television presenter.

    Matt Baker

  • Reginald Yates is a British television presenter, actor, writer and director with a career spanning three decades on screen as an actor, television presenter and radio DJ.

    Reggie Yates

  • Holly Marie Willoughby is an English television presenter, author and model.

    Holly Willoughby

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the present family

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presenter — used about once every 8,568 pages · #11,355 · point at the bar for the others

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