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.
1nounpresenterThe person who introduces and hosts a programme.
“The TV presenter smiled at the camera and introduced the next guest.”
presenter is a worker.
Latin
praesens
Old French
present
Middle English
present
English
present
English, today
presenter
Built from
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